shared memory

A part of physical memory intended for common use. Programs communicate with each other through shared memory. The use of shared memory results in faster access to the components loaded in shared memory. Before starting the application, shared memory must be initialized and setup. A prerequisite for using shared memory is that it should be supported by the hardware besides having sufficient internal memory at its disposal.

The following components can be loaded into shared memory:

• report objects
• program objects
• table definitions