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F# High Performance

By : Eriawan Kusumawardhono
Book Image

F# High Performance

By: Eriawan Kusumawardhono

Overview of this book

F# is a functional programming language and is used in enterprise applications that demand high performance. It has its own unique trait: it is a functional programming language and has OOP support at the same time. This book will help you make F# applications run faster with examples you can easily break down and take into your own work. You will be able to assess the performance of the program and identify bottlenecks. Beginning with a gentle overview of concurrency features in F#, you will get to know the advanced topics of concurrency optimizations in F#, such as F# message passing agent of MailboxProcessor and further interoperation with .NET TPL. Based on this knowledge, you will be able to enhance the performance optimizations when implementing and using other F# language features. The book also covers optimization techniques by using F# best practices and F# libraries. You will learn how the concepts of concurrency and parallel programming will help in improving the performance. With this, you would be able to take advantage of multi-core processors and track memory leaks, root causes, and CPU issues. Finally, you will be able to test their applications to achieve scalability.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
F# High Performance
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Preface

Best practices in using F# collections


The F# types are mostly describing types that are not collection types. F# has its own unique collection types as well.

The F# collection features are mostly implemented as modules, with the namespace of Microsoft.FSharp.Collections. The following are the F# collection modules:

  • Module Array: Basic operations on arrays

  • Module Array2D: Basic operations on two-dimensional arrays

  • Module Array3D: Basic operations on rank 3 arrays

  • Module Array4D: Basic operations on rank 4 arrays

  • Module ComparisonIdentity: Common notions of comparison identity used with sorted data structures

  • Module HashIdentity: Common notions of value identity used with hash tables

  • Module List: Basic operations on lists

  • Module Map: Functional programming operators related to the Map type

  • Module Seq: Basic operations on enumerable collections

  • Module Set: Functional programming operators related to the Set type

List, Map, and Set are unique to F#.

For more information about F# collections, please consult...