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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

Choosing a value evaluation strategy


We know that F# collections have support for lazy evaluation, not just eager evaluation. Almost all of F# collections are lazy, except the operations that require modifications on the order of the elements. The collections in F# that do not have a lazy feature are F# Array and Set, as the semantics are similar to the .NET BCL array.

Collection modules on F# are not all lazily evaluated. The same behavior is applied on these modules: Array, List, and Sequence. The F# developer team is working hard to end the feature disparity by making relevant functions to be available for all modules.

For a more complete list of F#'s progress on narrowing feature disparity (focusing on what's new in F# releases) visit: 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualfsharpdocs/conceptual/whats-new-in-visual-fsharp

For example, map and filter do not require modification of the order of the elements; sort (orderby in LINQ) and groupby require modifications.

The real reasons why we...