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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.
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F# High Performance
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Preface

Considerations of computation expression optimization


Computation expressions can be further optimized if we carefully implement the design planning. We have discussed the design considerations of a computation workflow in the previous section of this chapter, and we shall carry the considerations as a quick foundation to perform optimization.

The optimization of computation expression is quite hard because of the following factors as consequences of computation expression syntax translations:

  1. Construction of computation expressions depends heavily on syntactic sugar that becomes language constructs. For example, ReturnFrom method is translated to a method that returns a result of the underlying type of a computation expression. Therefore, we must follow the strict guidelines of the asynchronous method builders to express translation; otherwise, we will get unpredictable results or even exceptions.

  2. Composing the sequence of let! requires some wirings of a chained Bind method builder in the...