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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2003
Diab Abuaiadh, Haifa, IL;
Victor Leikehman, Ramat Yishai, IL;
Diab Abuaiadh, Haifa, IL;
Victor Leikehman, Ramat Yishai, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A garbage collector including a bit mapper operative to designate a plurality of regions within a memory, associate any of a plurality of objects with any of the regions if the start address of the object to be associated lies within the region, and record the relative location of a group of objects within any of the regions, a mover operative to relocate any of the groups of objects found within a source region from among the regions to begin at a destination address, and a fixer operative to record the destination address at an index corresponding to the source region.