Invention Grant
US06862674B2 Methods and apparatus for performing a memory management technique
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用于执行存储器管理技术的方法和装置
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for performing a memory management technique
- Patent Title (中): 用于执行存储器管理技术的方法和装置
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Application No.: US10163677Application Date: 2002-06-06
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Publication No.: US06862674B2Publication Date: 2005-03-01
- Inventor: David Dice , Alexander T. Garthwaite
- Applicant: David Dice , Alexander T. Garthwaite
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Sun Microsystems
- Current Assignee: Sun Microsystems
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Chapin & Huang, LLC
- Agent Barry W. Chapin, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02 ; G06F12/00

Abstract:
Mechanisms and techniques operate in a computerized device to perform a memory management technique such as garbage collection. The mechanisms and techniques operate to detect, within a storage structure associated with a thread, general memory references that reference storage locations in a general memory area such as a heap. The storage structure may be a stack utilized by the thread, which may be, for example, a Java thread, during operation of the thread in the computerized device. The system maintains a reference structure containing an association to the general memory area for each detected general memory reference within the storage structure. The system then operates a memory management technique on the general memory area for locations in the general memory area other than those for which an association to the general memory area is maintained in the reference structure, thus increasing the performance of the memory management technique.
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- US20030229766A1 Methods and apparatus for performing a memory management technique Public/Granted day:2003-12-11
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