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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


The knowledge of the computation expression correctness is also useful as we are not sacrificing performance as well, while at the same time keeping the functional programming's best practices in place. Although the nature of builder methods in a computation expression implementation is mostly implemented using the object oriented principle, using instantiated computation expression gives us more expressiveness to make our code cleaner and better composed.

We have the knowledge of the optimization of F# code or applications, starting from identifying the performance aspects of the .NET runtime to the detail of F# performance characteristics, measurement with .NET tooling ecosystem, and optimization of all the aspects of the F# language ecosystem-from the compiler to the existing F# features.

We not only have an understanding of the general language features but also the knowledge of aligning compilers with concurrency, data structures, language constructs, and other sophisticated and...