Inventor

SCHMIDT WILLIAM JON

US47 patents

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SCHMIDT WILLIAM JON

IBM

Software profiler with runtime control to enable and disable instrumented executable

Lifetime-sensitive instruction scheduling mechanism and method

Object oriented apparatus and method for allocating objects on an invocation stack

Method and apparatus for modular reordering of portions of a computer program based on profile data

Generating and utilizing organized profile information

Profile driven optimization of frequently executed paths with inlining of code fragment (one or more lines of code from a child procedure to a parent procedure)

Method and apparatus for profile-based reordering of program portions in a computer program

Method and apparatus for profiling indirect procedure calls in a computer program

Method and apparatus for obtaining profile data for use in optimizing computer programming code

Object oriented apparatus and method for allocating objects on an invocation stack in a dynamic compilation environment

Graphical view of program structure during debugging session

Low impact breakpoint for multi-user debugging

Debugger capable of providing warnings for unreachable breakpoints

Object oriented method and apparatus for class variable initialization

Object oriented apparatus and method for allocating array objects on an invocation stack

Method and computer program product for adaptive inlining in a computer system

Skip list data storage during compilation

Incremental change processing apparatus for presented objects

Method and apparatus for automatically converting numeric data to a processor efficient format for performing arithmetic operations

Compiler apparatus and method for optimizing loops in a computer program

Object-oriented compiler mechanism for automatically selecting among multiple implementations of objects

Multi-stage profiler

Instruction cache alignment mechanism for branch targets based on predicted execution frequencies

Method and computer program product for implementing method calls in a computer system

Compiler apparatus and method for unrolling a superblock in a computer program

Register allocation method and apparatus for gernerating spill code as a function of register pressure compared to dual thresholds

Register allocation method and apparatus for truncating runaway lifetimes of program variables in a computer system

Intelligent cache management mechanism

Method and apparatus for improving colorability of constrained nodes in an interference graph within a computer system

Compiler apparatus and method for devirtualizing virtual method calls

Efficient monitoring of program variables under debug

Incorporating register pressure into an inlining compiler

Debugger impact reduction through breakpoint motion

Skip list data storage during compilation

Expression reduction during compilation through routine cloning

Object oriented apparatus and method for allocating objects on an invocation stack in a partial compilation environment

Adaptively generating code for a computer program

Debugger impact reduction through motion of induction variable based breakpoints

Lifetime-sensitive mechanism and method for hoisting invariant computations out of loops in a computer program

Incremental change processing apparatus for presented objects

Compiling with partial copy propagation

Unrolling loops with partial hot traces

SCHMIDT WILLIAM JON

Obtaining profile data for use in optimizing computer programming code

Obtaining profile data for use in optimizing computer programming code

RICARD GARY ROSS

Providing efficient access to redundant number representations

Mechanism for providing efficient access to redundant number representations

DONOVAN ROBERT JOHN

Apparatus for automatically converting numeric data to a processor efficient format for performing arithmetic operations