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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
May. 22, 2010
Stephen J Fink, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David P. Grove, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Stephen J Fink, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David P. Grove, Ridgefield, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer readable storage medium for associating a phase with an activation of a computer program that supports garbage collection include: a plurality of stacks, each stack including at least one stack frame that includes an activation count; and a processor with logic for performing steps of: zeroing the activation count whenever the program creates a new stack frame and after garbage collection is performed; determining whether an interval has transpired during program execution; examining each stack frame's content and incrementing the activation count for each frame of the stacks once the interval has transpired; detecting the phase whose activation count is non-zero and associating the phase with the activation; and ensuring that when the phase ends, an action is immediately performed.