Application-specific heap management

Details Application-specific heap management Application-specific heap management

2011-03-15

2011-03-15

Kim, Matt (Department: 2186)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Memory configuring

C711S147000, C711S171000, C711S173000, C711SE12006, C711SE12009

Reexamination Certificate

active

07908454

ABSTRACT:
Tools and techniques for application-specific heap management are described herein. The tools may provide machine-readable storage media containing machine-readable instructions for profiling an application to facilitate managing heap memory associated with the application, and for managing requests from the application to allocate or deallocate from the heap memory based on the profiling. The tools may also receive requests from the application to allocate buffers, and may determine whether an instance-level memory pool, which is associated with a portion of the application, contains enough free buffers to satisfy the request. Finally, the tools may receive requests from the application to deallocate buffers, and in response to the request, may deallocate the requested buffers into the instance-level memory pool. The tools may also determine whether the instance-level memory pool contains a number of free buffers that exceeds a threshold.

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