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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
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Summary


When we are developing any applications, starting from small mobile applications to a large-scale enterprise application, concurrency is becoming very relevant, not just because of the trend of multi-core CPUs but also because having optimizations on concurrency gives us many advantages as described in this chapter. Although there is no single solution for all concurrency problems and optimizations, we know that we could leverage concurrency support in F# and .NET.

In Chapter 5, Advanced Concurrency Support in F#, we will discuss the advanced topic of concurrency in F#, including one of F#'s unique features: the message-passing agent, MailboxProcessor.