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Programming Idiom Accelerators

  • US 20110173417A1
  • Filed: 02/01/2008
  • Published: 07/14/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, in a data processing system, for performing programming idiom acceleration, the method comprising:

  • performing, by a programming idiom accelerator, a look-ahead operation to examine an instruction stream of a thread being executed by a processor, wherein the instruction stream comprises instructions to be executed by the processor;

    detecting, by the programming idiom accelerator, a predetermined programming idiom comprising a sequence of instructions; and

    performing, by the programming idiom accelerator, an action to accelerate execution of the sequence of instructions by the processor.

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