COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THAT SYSTEM

摘要

A computer system described may have features relating to one or more of dynamic compilation of a dominant path, including using pre-exception condition checks, outliers and/or class loaders, to dispatch mechanisms for interface methods, to management and deletion of code buffers, to test and verification of compiled code, to return barriers in garbage collection, grey packet management in garbage collection, to device driver interrupt handlers, and/or to data structures comprising a list. The invention finds particular application for systems including a virtual machine 2000. The virtual machine 2000 is installed in an item of equipement 2002 and is coupled to one or more applications 2004 and to items of hardware 2006 of the equipement 2002. Advantages include increased speed of execution and reduced memory footprint.