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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2012
Hiroshi Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hideaki Komatsu, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hideaki Komatsu, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of memory management includes allocating a portion of a memory as a memory heap including a plurality of segments, each segment having a segment size; performing one or more memory allocations for objects in the memory heap; creating a free list array and class-size array in a metadata section of the memory heap, the class-size array being created such that each element of the size-class array is related a particular one of the plurality of segments and the free list array being created such that each element of the free list array is related to a different size class; and initializing the heap when it is determined that the heap may be destroyed, initializing including clearing the free list array.