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US 2003/0126305 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for efficient object sub-typing
AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorsJohn R. Rose, Clifford N. Click
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AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorsJohn R. Rose, Clifford N. Click
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An efficient method of sub-typing an object in an object oriented computing environment is provided. In one embodiment, the sub-typing method loads an input object having an object type, whereby an embedded array and a cache are searched for an object sub-typing data structure corresponding to the requested supertype. Any found object sub-typing data structures are associated with the input object. In some embodiments, if the object sub-typing data structure is not initially found, an overflow array is searched and the cache is updated with the object sub-typing data structure when the object sub-typing data structure is included in the overflow array. A system and software product is further provided in other embodiments whereby information associated with a particular object sub-type is obtained.
In an object oriented computing environment, a method of sub-typing an object, comprising:
In an object oriented computing environment, an apparatus for sub-typing an object, comprising:
An object sub-typing system comprising of:
A computer program product for obtaining information associated with a particular object sub-type, the computer program product comprising:
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