Relative positioning and access of memory objects

Details Relative positioning and access of memory objects Relative positioning and access of memory objects

2003-12-23

2010-10-26

Cottingham, John R. (Department: 2167)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Garbage collection

Reexamination Certificate

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07822790

ABSTRACT:
A garbage collector including a bit mapper operative to designate a plurality of regions within a memory, associate any of a plurality of objects with any of the regions if the start address of the object to be associated lies within the region, and record the relative location of a group of objects within any of the regions, a mover operative to relocate any of the groups of objects found within a source region from among the regions to begin at a destination address, and a fixer operative to record the destination address at an index corresponding to the source region.

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