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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Giles R. Frazier, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Karl Gschwind, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Younes Manton, Toronto, CA;
Karl M. Taylor, Kanata, CA;
Brian W. Thompto, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for a garbage collection is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a processor that includes a load-monitored region register. A memory stores program code, which, when executed on the processor performs an operation for garbage collection, the operation includes specifying a load-monitored region within a memory managed by a runtime environment; enabling a load-monitored event-based branch configured to occur responsive to executing a first type of CPU instruction to load a pointer that points to a first location in the load-monitored region; performing a garbage collection process in background without pausing executing in the runtime environment; executing a CPU instruction of the first type to load a pointer that points to the first location in the load-monitored region; responsive to triggering a load-monitored event-based branch, moving an object pointed to by the pointer with a handler from the first location in memory to a second location in memory.