Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070234286
Filing Date: May 25, 2006Priority Date: March 28, 2006
Inventors: Bo Huang, Jiangning Liu, Lei Gao
Assignee: Intel
Current U.S. Classification: 717, 717/114000, 717/118000
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An article of manufacture storing machine accessible data:
compiled byte code for a function; and
an annotation record for a parameter of the function that might be passed as a pointer or data depending on a size of the data relative to a threshold.
Patent/Application # WO05091772
Description
The invention comprises a method and system for annotating a Java application file or ground Java application file to insert compiler hinting information such that a just-in-time compiler in a target environment preferentially compiles byte-code within the Java application file.
