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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for reducing garbage collection overhead. The method includes representing, by a hardware processor, an application program by a Directed Acyclic Graph having a set of nodes. Each of the nodes represents a respective one of a plurality of computation tasks. The method further includes specifying, by the hardware processor from the set of nodes, any of the nodes which store a respective computation result for at least a threshold period of time as cache nodes. The method further includes allocating, by the hardware processor, the respective computation result of each of the cache nodes into a tenure area of a memory.