Patent · US Active

Using transactional memory for precise exception handling in aggressive dynamic binary optimizations

US7865885B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Youfeng Wu · Palo Alto, US
Cheng Wang · San Ramon, US
Ho-Seop Kim · Gimhae-si, KR

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 27, 2006
Grant date	Jan 4, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 4, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/466
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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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