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Partway through the Oracle Patent opening... "this converts symbolic references into pointers" | 697 comments | Create New Account
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Partway through the Oracle Patent opening... "this converts symbolic references into pointers"
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 04:40 PM EDT
First someone needs to teach the lawyers :)

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symbolic pointers, ... uh...
Authored by: BJ on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 04:43 PM EDT
... there I was -- all the while thinking I had pointers mastered...

bjd



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Partway through the Oracle Patent opening... "this converts symbolic references into pointers"
Authored by: jvillain on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 05:10 PM EDT
The point of making symbolic references the heart of Oracle’s case is because Oracle argues that Android relies on symbolic reference resolution to run faster.

Lin k

I sure hope their case is about a lot more than that. The USPTO couldn't find prior art for using passing by reference to speed up execution? There better be a lot more here or we can just move onto phase 3.

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Partway through the Oracle Patent opening... "this converts symbolic references into pointers"
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 05:16 PM EDT
I think that the patent is specifically about converting the symbolic references
to pointers at execution time, and Google has already explained that Android
doesn't do that. When java bytecode is converted into Dalvik bytecode the the
symbolic references are converted to pointers, so there are no symbolic
references in the Dalvik bytecode at execution time to be converted.

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