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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2007
Richard Thaik, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John Gregory Favor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph Rowlands, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leonard E. Shar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew William Ashcraft, Belmont, CA (US);
Richard Thaik, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John Gregory Favor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph Rowlands, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leonard E. Shar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew William Ashcraft, Belmont, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for promoting traces in an instruction processing circuit is disclosed. The method and system comprises determining if a current trace is promotable; and adding the current trace to a sequence buffer if the current trace is promotable. The current trace is marked as promoted and the current trace is marked as a first trace of a multi-block trace. The method and system includes determining if a next trace is promotable; adding the next trace to the sequence buffer if the next trace is promotable; and repeating the above until the next trace is not promotable and then adding the next trace to the sequence buffer if the next trace is not promotable.