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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2017
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
A method and apparatus for garbage collection is disclosed herein. The method includes performing a garbage collection process without pausing execution of a runtime environment. The method also includes executing a first CPU instruction to load a first pointer that points to a first location in a first region of memory, where the first region of memory is undergoing garbage collection. The method also includes moving a first object pointed to by the first pointer from the first location in memory to a second location in memory.