Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-04-23
2000-03-14
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
711147, 395843, 395848, G06F 1700
Patent
active
060385723
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed describing processes that optimize generational garbage collection techniques in a card-marked heap. The invention localizes nodes in an older generation that have a pointer to a newer generation. This node localization increases the density of such nodes in the cards marked as having these nodes and thus reduces the number of marked cards that need to be examined for nodes having pointers to the newer generation.
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Knippel Ross C.
Schwartz David C.
Black Thomas G.
Jung David Yink
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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