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Managing ABL Applications
ABL and R-code Deployment and Management : Managing Client Performance : Procedure loading and execution : R-code execution environment
 
R-code execution environment
OpenEdge provides a dynamic environment for loading and executing r-code from operating system files, standard procedure libraries, and memory-mapped procedure libraries. This execution environment consists of the following components:
*Execution buffer — The portion of local memory that OpenEdge allocates and uses to store the chain of loaded r-code segments for all standard r-code executing in local memory.
*R-code swap file ( .rcd ) — A file that OpenEdge uses to dynamically swap standard r-code segments in and out of the execution buffer.
*Shared memory buffer — The portion of shared memory that the operating system allocates and uses to store and execute the r-code segments for all memory-mapped members.
*Segment descriptor table — An in-memory table that references the r-code segments required by all executing r-code, including the location of each r-code segment in local or shared memory and usage count information.
*R-code directory — An in-memory table that contains information about all r-code executing in local or shared memory, including r-code size, usage count, segment descriptions, and a reference to the segment descriptor table for each segment.
For more information about the r-code execution environment, see R-codeFeatures and Functions.
OpenEdge loads and executes r-code in different ways, depending on whether you access the r-code file directly or store the r-code in either a standard or memory-mapped procedure library. The following sections provide an overview of how OpenEdge loads and executes r-code from each of these sources.
* Loading and executing r-code from a file
* Loading and executing r-code from a standard procedure library
* Loading and executing r-code from a memory-mapped procedure library
* Tuning r-code execution
* Tuning standard procedure libraries