DocumentCode :
2768006
Title :
The Design of a Novel Object-oriented Processor : OOMIPS
Author :
Ji, Weixing ; Shi, Feng ; Qiao, Baojun ; Kamran, Muhammad
Author_Institution :
Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing
fYear :
2007
fDate :
9-11 July 2007
Firstpage :
198
Lastpage :
203
Abstract :
A novel object-oriented processor is proposed in this paper, which provides support for object addressing, message passing and dynamic memory management. Object running on this processor has its own control thread and communicates with others via messages. A virtual addressed object cache that reduces the indirection overhead while maintaining the efficiency of object relocation is presented. Object table that maintains the handles is used to obtain the actual object location on an object cache miss. Hardware support for explicit dynamic memory management is provided. Object allocation and deletion is strictly bounded in time. Moreover, a new concurrently dynamic memory management algorithm is proposed, which enables the processor to freely access heap during memory compaction and the applications will not be suspended for the completion of memory compaction.
Keywords :
message passing; object-oriented methods; storage management; OOMIPS; dynamic memory management; hardware support; memory compaction; message passing; object addressing; object allocation; object cache; object deletion; object relocation; object running; object table; object-oriented processor; Compaction; Computer architecture; Computer science; Hardware; Memory management; Message passing; Object oriented programming; Read only memory; Software engineering; Technology management;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, 2007. ASAP. IEEE International Conf. on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
ISSN :
2160-0511
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1026-2
Electronic_ISBN :
2160-0511
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ASAP.2007.4429980
Filename :
4429980
Link To Document :
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