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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2002
Lawrence R. Rau, Dublin, NH (US);
Craig F. Newell, Lowell, MA (US);
Frank E. Barrus, New Ipswich, NH (US);
Lawrence R. Rau, Dublin, NH (US);
Craig F. Newell, Lowell, MA (US);
Frank E. Barrus, New Ipswich, NH (US);
SavaJe Technologies, Inc., Chelmsford, MA (US);
Abstract
A garbage collector, from time to time, and within a single cycle, determines objects that are eligible to have their associated memory freed; executes high-priority finalizers associated with such eligible objects as are determined; and after execution of a high-priority finalizer, deallocates the memory of the associated object. The garbage collector queues references to eligible objects that have non-high-priority finalizers in a list. After garbage collection is completed, a finalizer thread runs the queued non-high-priority finalizers and marks the associated objects as ready for deallocation. The garbage collector, during a subsequent cycle, then deallocates the memory associated with marked objects.