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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
May. 05, 2010
Applicants:
Tatu J. Ylonen, Espoo, FI;
Tero T. Mononen, Espoo, FI;
Inventors:
Tatu J. Ylonen, Espoo, FI;
Tero T. Mononen, Espoo, FI;
Assignee:
Clausal Computing OY, , FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
During garbage collection, writes to objects being copied (relocated) are monitored (tracked) using a write barrier that uses a thread-local write barrier buffer. In the preferred embodiment, soft synchronization is used for reading the thread-local write barrier buffers. In response to detecting a write to an object, the object may be re-copied, the copying may be made to fail, the write may be propagated to another copy of the object, or, e.g., another node in a distributed system may be notified of the write.