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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2002
Richard Eugene Hank, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Eugene Hank, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for selecting a basic block in a computer program comprising providing a computer program including an entry basic block and a plurality of basic blocks forming control flow paths, determining that immediate subsets of the control flow paths commencing with the entry basic block are essentially unbiased subsets, determining that the basic blocks in the immediate subsets of the flow control paths have essentially the same height, and selecting any one of the basic blocks in the immediate subsets of the flow control flow paths. The height may be a height selected from the group of heights consisting of resource height and dependence height. An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium having instructions for selecting a basic block or for forming a new computer control flow path. A computer system comprising a computer program having instructions for selecting a basic block or for forming a new computer control flow path.