US Patent 7698534 Reordering application code to improve processing performance

Patent 7698534 was granted and assigned to Arm on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Arm

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7698534

Date of Patent

April 13, 2010

Patent Application Number

11708703

Date Filed

February 21, 2007

Patent Primary Examiner

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Eric Coleman

Patent abstract

A method of reordering a sequence of code for processing by a target data processor in order to reduce an execution time for said code on said target data processor is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: in response to a request to execute said sequence of code, loading said sequence of code into a volatile data store associated with said target data processor; analyzing said sequence of code in relation to properties of said target data processor; identifying interlocks within said sequence of code when executing on said target data processor, in which a portion of code would be stalled while waiting for an earlier portion to complete; reordering said sequence of code to remove at least some of said interlocks; and executing said reordered sequence of code; wherein said steps of analyzing, identifying, reordering and executing are performed by said target data processor.