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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shlomit Pinter, Haifa, IL;
Sara Porat, Ramat Yishay, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A computer implemented technique for the static evaluation of the lifetime of objects allocated in memory is presented, which find application in reducing the overhead of generational garbage collection. The method combines pointer alias analysis with static object size determination, from which accurate generational assignment of newly created objects can be accomplished.