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US 8,555,005 B2Granted
Memory managing apparatus and method using a pointer indicator bit to perform garbage collection
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsBernhard Egger, Tai-Song Jin, Dong-Hoon Yoo, Won-Sub Kim, Sun-Hwa Kim, Hee-Jin Ahn
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Abstract
A memory managing apparatus and method are provided. The memory managing apparatus may determine, based on a pointer indicator bit, the target memory area on which garbage collection is to be performed, and may perform the garbage collection on the target memory area. The memory managing apparatus may generate the pointer indicator bit and store the generated pointer indicator bit in a pointer field.
Claims16
A memory managing apparatus, comprising:
- a register, comprising:
- a pointer field configured to store a pointer indicator bit;
- and
- a data field configured to store data;
- and
- a determining unit configured to determine, based on the pointer indicator bit, a target memory area on which garbage collection is to be performed and determine, based on the pointer indicator bit, whether the data stored in the data field is a pointer.
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A memory managing apparatus, comprising:
- a register, comprising:
- a pointer field configured to store a pointer indicator bit;
- and
- a data field configured to store data;
- and
- a generating unit configured to:
- generate the pointer indicator bit to be used to determine whether the data stored in the data field is a pointer;
- and
- store the generated pointer indicator bit in the pointer field.
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A memory managing method, comprising:
- generating a pointer indicator bit;
- storing the generated pointer indicator bit in a pointer field;
- and
- determining, based on the pointer indicator bit, a target memory area on which garbage collection is to be performed, wherein the determining of the target memory area comprises determining based on the pointer indicator bit, whether the data stored in the data field is a pointer.
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