Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-03
2009-12-08
Mahmoudi, Tony (Department: 2169)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07631024
ABSTRACT:
A method and a system for facilitating garbage collection (GC) operations in a memory-management system that supports both mark-sweep (MS) objects and reference-counted (RC) objects, wherein objects which are frequently modified are classified as MS objects, and objects which are infrequently modified are classified as RC objects. During a marking phase of a GC operation, the system identifies a set of root objects and then marks referents of the root objects. The system then recursively traverses referents of the root objects which are MS objects and while doing so, marks referents of the traversed MS objects. However, if an RC object is encountered during the traversal of an MS object, the system marks the RC object but does not recursively traverse the RC object. In doing so, the system avoids traversing a large number of RC objects which are infrequently modified.
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Seidl Matthew L.
Wolczko Mario I.
Wright Gregory M.
Mahmoudi Tony
Park Vaughan & Fleming LLP
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Vo Cecile
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