Appeal No. 1998-1514
Application No. 08/370,963
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a profile based optimization of shared libraries.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced below.
1. A method of operating a digital computer to provide instrumentation
data for a shared library running in an environment in which programs are
loaded and unloaded by a loader, said environment supporting the operation
of at least one program in addition to said shared library, said program
utilizing at least one function provided by said shared library, said
environment including means for storing a predetermined environment
variable that may be read by any program running in said environment, said
method comprising the steps of:
causing said loader to examine said environment to determine if said
predetermined environment variable has been set; and
storing profile based optimization data stored in said shared library
code in a location specified by said predetermined environmental variable if
said predetermined environmental variable was present in response to a
command being sent to said loader.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Janis et al. (Janis) 5,247,681 Sep. 21, 1993
Graham et al., “gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler”, Association for Computing
Machinery (1982) (Graham)
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