US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Optimal just-in-time trace sizing for virtual machines" (Canadian, Ugandan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,228, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimal just-in-time trace sizing for virtual machines" was invented by Joannah Nanjekye (Kampala, Uganda), David D. Bremner (Fredericton, Canada) and Aleksandar Micic (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic trace sizing for tracing just-in-time compilation is provided. A trace of a program is generated during a tracing phase of the just-in-time compilation. The trace of the program is profiled to determine an estimated effective trace size prior to compiling the trace. Additional profiling is performed to determine a garbage collect...