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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
May. 24, 2002
Michael K. Saltz, San Jose, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for freeing memory within a computing device. During operation, the system receives a command to free a given segment of memory within the computing device, wherein the command specifies the location of the given segment and the size of the given segment. In response to the command, the system adds the given segment to a free segment table that contains entries for free segments of memory within the computing device. During this process, if the given segment is contiguous with an existing segment in the free segment table, the given segment is concatenated with the existing segment by adding the given segment to an entry for the existing segment in the free segment table.