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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1997
Sofyan I. Nugroho, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anil K. Srivastava, Redwood City, CA (US);
Rohit Valia, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for executing platform-independent code on a co-processor is described. The system includes a processor, a main memory and the co-processor, each interconnected with each other. The processor and the co-processor operate under control of an operating system. A memory manager operatively coupled to the operating system initializes a runtime environment including an address space in the main memory for the platform-independent code. A runtime shim operatively coupled to the operating system provides the initialized runtime environment to the co-processor through the operating system. The co-processor executes the platform-independent code responsive to the runtime shim with reference to the address space in the main memory.