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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

Introduction to interop with .NET TPL


F# has a high compatibility support for .NET TPL; it can nicely use the .NET TPL objects of Task and Task<T> back and forth. This means that F# can also use the Task/Task<T> results from other languages as well and not just from F#.

In .NET TPL, the concurrency support is not just for parallel programming, but also for the awaiter of the async-await model that has currently started in C# 5.0 and VB 11, as related in .NET 4.5 and later.

In this chapter, we will start from the overview of .NET TPL support in F# in terms of leveraging Task and Task<T>. We will discuss the interop perspective from outside of F#, such as interop with F# asynchronous workflow, in Chapter 5, Advanced Concurrency Support in F#.

A quick overview of asynchronous programming in .NET TPL

For asynchronous operations (or asynchronous programming, as is mostly mentioned in C#/VB documentation in MSDN) the async-await model relies heavily on the Task and Task<T>...