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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ganesan Ramalingam, Cronton On Hudson, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method and system for optimizing the representation of objects in an object-oriented programming language to reduce the memory requirement during the execution of the program, includes identifying the lifetimes of the various members of objects belonging to various classes. Next, the method uses the lifetime information to generate representations of objects belonging to these collections. Memory requirements are optimized by having members which do not have overlapping lifetimes share the same memory location.