Appeal No. 97-2525
Application 08/291,370
indicating in each one of said original physical
locations said new physical location corresponding
to said moved instruction.
25. An apparatus for reordering the
instructions within an executable file to optimize
execution thereof by a data processing system, said
apparatus comprising:
means for recording, during execution of said
instructions, trace information including address
information;
means for selecting a subset of said
instructions which are indicated by said trace
information as being executed frequently; and
means for moving each of said selected
instructions from their original physical location
to a new physical location at the end of the
executable file; and
means for indicating in each one of said
original physical locations said new physical
location corresponding to said moved instruction.
30. A computer program product comprising:
a computer usable medium having computer
readable program code means embodied therein for
reordering the instructions within an executable
file to optimize execution thereof by a data
processing system, said computer readable program
code means comprising:
means for recording, during execution of said
instructions, trace information including address
information;
means for selecting a subset of said
instructions which are indicated by said trace
information as being executed frequently; and
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