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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
David M. Sauntry, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael E. Markley, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Gilbert, Mount Pleasant, SC (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
An incremental garbage collector is disclosed. Upon termination of a function or program, the incremental garbage collector scans the object heap for objects allocated by the function or program that are not referenced outside the function or program that allocated the objects. Memory occupied by such objects is immediately reclaimed without having to wait for the garbage collector.