Patent Document ID: 20110119318
Application ID: 12621458
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for performing garbage collection promotion, comprising: determining that an age of a large young object is greater than a predetermined tenuring threshold, wherein the predetermined tenuring threshold specifies an age beyond which objects are promoted; setting a plurality of types of a plurality of large memory regions from young to old to promote the large young object to a large old object, wherein the plurality of large memory regions host the large young object; scavenging references of the large old object, wherein the large old object is a large promoted object; scanning a large young object list to identify a plurality of unvisited large young objects, wherein a plurality of visited bits of the plurality of unvisited large young objects are unset; and releasing a plurality of unvisited large memory regions, wherein the unvisited large memory regions host the plurality of unvisited large young objects.