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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

Chapter 6. Optimizing Type Provider

We now have a basic understanding of the basic and advanced concurrency features of F#. We also have enough tooling knowledge and hence, enough knowledge about tooling support in Visual Studio. Based on this knowledge, we can also enhance the performance optimizations when implementing and using other F# language features.

In this chapter, we will focus on bringing the previous knowledge into optimizing type provider. Type provider is a unique feature of F#; it was introduced in F# 3.0.

Note

Type provider was introduced in F# 3.0 release, at the same time as Visual Studio 2012 release. It is important to know that F# 3.0 is part of train releases of Visual Studio 2012, not Visual Studio 2013. Many external articles (including some blogs) outside the MSDN blogs and MSDN Library mistakenly assume that F# 3.0 has a type provider that comes with Visual Studio 2013. The release of F# that comes with Visual Studio 2013 is F# 3.1, not F# 3.0.

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