Abstract: A method is disclosed for reducing dynamic pauses during dynamic compilation. Applications running on a system detect the rendering of dynamic output to a user. The dynamic output represents a change in visual or audio data while any application is running. When an application detects such output it notifies the system, which monitors the frequency of the dynamic output. If the frequency of the dynamic output exceeds a threshold, the system informs a compiler on the system to suspend compilation. Compilation normally occurs when an interpreter on the system is instructed to pass processing control to the compiler. One way this occurs is if a method currently being processed by the interpreter has been marked for compilation. Thus, in order to suspend compilation, the compiler ceases to mark methods for compilation so that the interpreter will not be instructed to pass processing control to the compiler.

Abstract: A system for binary code instrumentation to reduce effective memory latency comprises a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory comprises program instructions executable by the processor to implement a code analyzer configured to analyze an instruction stream of compiled code executable at an execution engine to identify, for a given memory reference instruction in the stream that references data at a memory address calculated during an execution of the instruction stream, an earliest point in time during the execution at which sufficient data is available at the execution engine to calculate the memory address. The code analyzer generates an indication of whether the given memory reference instruction is suitable for a prefetch operation based on a difference in time between the earliest point in time and a time at which the given memory reference instruction is executed during the execution.

Abstract: A build optimization tool analyzes builds of software/firmware to determine the ordering of code objects in first and second code versions for an electronic client device such as a cellular phone, personal digital assistant, or pager. The build optimization tool produces information for use by a software linker to link the code objects of the second code version in a more optimal order for the production of updating information used in the electronic client device for updating the software/firmware of the electronic client device.