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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003

Filed:

Jul. 19, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

David P. Stoutamire, San Juan Bautista, CA (US);

Steffen Grarup, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for creating a mechanism for rearranging a plurality of objects in memory are disclosed. A frequency of accesses in memory of one or more fields associated with the plurality of objects with respect to one another during execution of a computer application are determined. A mechanism for rearranging the plurality of objects in the memory in accordance with the determined frequency of accesses in memory of data referenced by the one or more fields associated with the plurality of objects with respect to one another is then generated.


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