Software atomization

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2006-10-03

2006-10-03

An, Meng-Ai (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Dynamic linking, late binding

C717S128000, C717S129000, C717S130000, C717S131000, C712S208000, C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

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07117507

ABSTRACT:
Software atomization provides a method of loading atomized computer program code and data on demand by loading, from an atom database, into a memory, an atom defining code or data in a fine-grained, individually addressable manner. Atoms comprise an atom identifier, computer program code or data information and computer program code or data reference information. The computer program code or data information is modified by transforming the reference information into memory addresses. The present invention provides for the lazy loading of data both implicitly and explicitly. Data is lazily loaded implicitly when it is referenced from code that is lazily loaded. Data is lazily loaded explicitly by encoding a referencing atom identifier such that the referenced data atom is not loaded until actually accessed at runtime.

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