Moderately conservative, mostly copying 2 space garbage collector in the nursery of a generational memory manager
US6421689B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 30, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jul 16, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 30, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99957
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for copying garbage collection is described. A set of ambiguously referenced objects is identified in a from-space. Live objects in the from-space which are not ambiguously referenced are moved to the to-space, and the ambiguously referenced are transfixed (i.e. left behind to reside in the from-space). The boundaries of the ambiguously referenced are determined. When moving objects to the to-space, the objects are moved into regions between boundaries of objects transfixed in the to-space.
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