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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2000
Richard J. Houldsworth, Horley, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method of scheduling instructions to be executed concurrently by a processor, the processor being capable of executing a predetermined number of instructions concurrently. Instructions from a first process and a second process are interleaved according to a predetermined rule to give a third process. Instructions from the third process are then scheduled for execution at a first time point by the processor. Instructions of the first process generate data structures comprising data objects linked by identifying pointers in a memory heap. The second process comprises a garbage collection process for traversing the memory heap and reclaiming memory allocated to data structures unused by the first process.