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US 2014/0280364 A1Published application
Disposal of rarely used member variables via shadow structures
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorsNathan Reynolds, Mikhail Dmitriev
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Abstract
A computer-controlled method can include determining at least one rarely-used field within a class, creating a shadow structure corresponding to the class, and moving the at least one rarely-used field from the class to the shadow structure. The method can also include adding a shadow reference to the class, the shadow reference corresponding to the shadow structure.
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A computer-controlled method, comprising:
- determining at least one rarely-used field within a first class;
- creating a first shadow structure corresponding to the first class;
- and
- moving the at least one rarely-used field from the first class to the first shadow structure corresponding to the first class.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine at least one rarely-used field within a class;
- create a shadow structure corresponding to the class, wherein the memory is configured to store the shadow structure;
- and
- move the at least one rarely-used field from the class to the shadow structure corresponding to the class.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.