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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
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Summary


We have explored the advanced concurrency support in F# and .NET TPL. We also have enough knowledge about how we should handle side effects and also on using asynchronous for various cases and scenarios.

The main conclusion when implementing the best practices of leveraging concurrency in F# is that there is no silver bullet for all concurrency needs, and this includes avoiding the assumption that parallelized code always runs faster than non-parallel code after examining cases that may bring down the performance of parallel implementation in .NET TPL. These warning cases can be applied not just in F# but also in VB/C#.

We have understood asynchrony and parallelism. We will use this knowledge to optimize the type providers and avoid the pitfalls of implementing them in Chapter 6, Optimizing Type Provider .