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AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorsAlexander T. Garthwaite, David L. Detlefs, Antonios Printezis, Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna
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A garbage collector divides the garbage-collected heap into “cards.” It maintains a table containing a card-object table entry for each card. A card's entry contains information from which the collector can determine where any references in the card are located and thereby identify objects that may be reachable. The encoding of a card's table entry is not restricted to values that indicate the location of the object in which the card begins. Instead, its possible values additionally include ones that indicate that the card begins with a certain number of references or that an object begins at a given location in the middle of the card. The collector thereby avoids consulting object's class information unnecessarily.
For operating a computer system including memory as a garbage collector, a method comprising:
A computer system comprising:
A storage medium containing instructions readable by a computer system that includes memory to configure the computer system to operate as a garbage collector that:
An electromagnetic signal representing sequences of instructions that, when executed by a computer system that includes memory, cause it to operate as a garbage collector that:
A garbage collector comprising:
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