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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bernd J. W. Mathiske, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ross C. Knippel, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A method for providing a remembered set involves maintaining the remembered set as a bag, identifying when an event occurs, and transforming the remembered set into a set when the event occurs. The step of transforming includes obtaining a plurality of thread local store buffers and flushing the thread local store buffers to a global store buffer.