Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Brice Adam Dobry

Haichuan Wang

Kai-Ting Amy Wang

Shiqiang Cui

Bo Qi

Peng Wu

Jose Nelson Amaral

Marcus Theodore Chernenko Karpoff

Compiling source code objects to improve efficiency of compiling is described herein. The compiling includes determining, by a compiler, an object type of a to-be-compiled object in source code. A counter is set for the to-be-compiled object. When the object type of the to-be-compiled object is an object type that can be operated by only one thread at one moment, the compiler sets a counter counting rule for the counter of the to-be-compiled object.

Method and apparatus for compiling source code object, and computer

An embodiment method for retiring a dynamically updatable function includes receiving, by a collector-thread, a registration of the function, wherein the registration indicates to the collector-thread addresses of memory locations for counters that count a number of calls currently being made to a previous version of the function by a plurality of execution threads; reading, by the collector-thread, values of the counters; and when the values of all the counters are zero, deleting, by the collector-thread, the function from a storage medium on a device previously executing the previous version of the function.

Method to manage multiple versions of parts of a software application and to retire older versions in a dynamically updatable software system

A method and system for using multiple versions of a software component, includes storing, in memory, a first function table that points to executable code in the memory for functions from a first version of the software component, and storing, in the memory, a second function table that points to executable code in the memory for functions from a second version of the software component, referencing the first function table, when running a first application thread, to execute the functions from the first version of the software component; and referencing the second function table, when running a second application thread that is active concurrently with the first application thread, to execute the functions from the second version of the software component.

Multi-version asynchronous dynamic software update system and method for applications with multiple threads

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Brice Adam Dobry