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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1999
Daniel Rodman Hicks, Byron, MN (US);
John Matthew Santosuosso, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and computer program product are provided for implementing redundant lock avoidance in a virtual call sequence in a computer-system. A first copy of each target method with synchronization enabled and a second copy of each the target method without synchronization enabled are provided. For each virtual call to an object in the virtual call sequence, reaching definition analysis for an object pointer to the object is performed. For each reaching definition of the pointer, it is determined whether each reaching definition represents a pointer to an object known to be locked. Responsive to identifying the pointer to the object not known to be locked, the first copy of the synchronized method with synchronization enabled is selected. Responsive to identifying the pointer to the object known to be locked, the second copy of the synchronized method without synchronization enabled is selected.