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Profiling program execution to identify frequently-executed portions and to assist binary translation

  • US 7,111,290 B1
  • Filed: 10/22/1999
  • Issued: 09/19/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method, comprising:

  • during a profiled interval of an execution of a program on a computer, recording profile information describing the execution, the program being coded in an instruction set in which instructions are not all of the same length, and in which the length of an instruction depends on a processor mode not expressed in the binary representation of the instruction,the recorded profile information containing information sufficient to permit, without reference to the binary representation of the program, reliable inference of the address of the last byte of a multi-byte control transfer instruction.

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