Patent ID: 8924944
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of improving the ease with which a distributed application designed for parallel processing is created when developers of the distributed application are writing distributed parallel algorithms in a distributed runtime environment, by providing generic language support that is automatically customized by a compiler at runtime to support different input and output data types, the computer-implemented method comprising acts of: generating for one or more portions of software code for a distributed software application a corresponding generic function coded to work with multiple different data types, each generic function being written in a computer programming language that supports reflection, and each generic function comprising: broadcasting the function signature and the signature's input and output data types to one or more ranks to enable addition of one or more additional functions to the generic function; receiving at an integrated development environment of a computing system a generic function generated for said one or more portions of software code for the distributed software application; for each received generic function presenting the function signature for the received generic function at runtime to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler so as to specify to the JIT which input and output data types the received generic function will work with; and identifying with a reflection module each generic function presented to the JIT and resolving each generic function to a function pointer after compilation by the JIT.