Patent ID: 8316357
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for performing one or more type operations using a plurality of type descriptors, the plurality of type descriptors including a canonical type descriptor that conforms to a set of canonicalization rules and an auxiliary type descriptor, the canonical type descriptor and auxiliary type descriptor being distinct and both being associated with a frozen object, the frozen object having a layout that is completed at compile time and allocated at compile time and thereby existing as an object in a compiled executable first module, the first module including both the frozen object and the auxiliary type descriptor, the method being performed upon one or more computer processors, the method comprising: an indirection component through which the auxiliary type descriptor is associated with the canonical type descriptor, wherein the indirection component is a component that may be written to at run-time to thereby cause the indirection component to point to the canonicalized type descriptor without causing the indirection component or a portion thereof to become private; for a first set of one of more operations, for a second set of one or more operations,