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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Shimin Cui, Toronto, CA;

William G. O'Farrell, Markham, CA;

Graham K. Yiu, Toronto, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/4441 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for significantly reducing compilation time of an application program is provided for compiling the program using profile-directed feedback (PDF). The method applies an additional analysis process between a training run of the application program and a whole program compilation of the application. This analysis process examines a PDF profile file(s) produced during the training run and aggregates data from the PDF file to determine a maximum block counter associated with each source file of the application. Only those source files having maximum block counters in a specified top percent of all the source files of the application have their fat binaries included in the whole program compilation.


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