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2011-01-04

2011-01-04

Zhen, Wei Y (Department: 2191)

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software program development tool

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C717S146000, C717S153000, C717S154000, C717S159000, C717S160000, C717S161000, C717S136000, C717S137000, C717S140000, C717S141000

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07865885

ABSTRACT:
Dynamic optimization of application code is performed by selecting a portion of the application code as a possible transaction. A transaction has a property that when it is executed, it is either atomically committed or atomically aborted. Determining whether to convert the selected portion of the application code to a transaction includes determining whether to apply at least one of a group of code optimizations to the portion of the application code. If it is determined to apply at least one of the code optimizations of the group of optimizations to the portion of application code, then the optimization is applied to the portion of the code and the portion of the code is converted to a transaction.

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