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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Gerald Blaine Garst, Jr., Los Altos, CA (US);
Gregory Robert Parker, Cupertino, CA (US);
Douglas Joshua Behnke, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Patrick C. Beard, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Gerald Blaine Garst, Jr., Los Altos, CA (US);
Gregory Robert Parker, Cupertino, CA (US);
Douglas Joshua Behnke, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Patrick C. Beard, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Per thread garbage collection is disclosed. Objects associated only with a thread that created them are tracked. At a garbage collection time for a particular thread, it is determined which objects associated only with that thread remain reachable from a restricted root set associated with the thread. Any thread-only objects that are not determined to be reachable are garbage collected.