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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mukund Raghav Sharma, San Diego, CA (US);
Manish Godse, Sammamish, WA (US);
Maoni Zhang Stephens, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mark Ronald Plesko, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ying Hung Au, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments perform lightweight monitoring for garbage collection (GC) flow events, then perform focused tracing after detecting a performance problem signal. The tracing is focused by constraints which are specified in a designation data structure, including a performance problem signal definition, a corresponding trace data category and a corresponding tracing stop trigger. Tracing is done only in the specified category and only for the specified time period, to reduce or avoid collection of irrelevant trace data and to reduce or avoid changes in program behavior caused by the tracing itself. Some designation data structures also specify a corresponding trace data analysis. In operation, some embodiments dynamically re-focus tracing on an offshoot trace in response to a trace data analysis result obtained while the program is still executing.