Metadata-driven dynamic specialization
US9785456B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 17, 2015 |
| Grant date | Oct 10, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 16, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/45516
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Metadata-driven dynamic specialization may include applying a type erasure operation to a set of instruction in a generic class or to a method declaration that includes typed variables using an encoded form of an instruction or an argument to an instruction. The instruction may operate on values of the reference types and the argument may be a signature that indicates the reference types. The encoded form may be annotated to include metadata indicating which type variables have been erased and which reference types are the erasures of type variables. Additionally, the metadata may indicate that the instruction operates on values of, and that the argument indicates reference types that are erasures of, the type variables of the class (or method) declaration. Moreover, the encoded form of the instruction or argument may be used directly without specialization or transformation.
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