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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2024
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Erik Österlund, Vasterhaninge, SE;
Stefan Mats Rikard Karlsson, Nacka, SE;
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for concurrent lazy reference tracking in an old garbage collection generation are disclosed, including: encountering, by a mutator thread during a garbage collection epoch, a first instruction to write a first value to a field; responsive to encountering the first instruction to write the first value to the field: entering a slow-path write barrier; performing, by the slow-path write barrier, a first one or more reference counting operations with respect to the field; encountering, by the mutator thread during the first garbage collection epoch and subsequent to encountering the first instruction to write the first value to the field, a second instruction to write a second value to the field; responsive to encountering the second instruction to write the second value to the field: entering a fast-path write barrier; wherein the fast-path write barrier does not perform any reference counting operations with respect to the field.