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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2013
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Christine H. Flood, Westford, MA (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
An example method of managing memory for an application includes identifying a plurality of regions of a heap storing one or more objects of a first type and one or more objects of a second type. Each object of the second type stores a memory address of an object of the first type. The method also includes selecting a set of target collection regions of the heap. The method includes in a concurrent marking phase, marking one or more reachable objects of the first type as live data. The method further includes for each region of the plurality maintaining a calculation of live data in the respective region. The method also includes traversing the objects of the first type marked in the concurrent marking phase and evacuating a set of traversed objects from a target collection region to a destination region of the heap.