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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
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


You learned that you can measure performance quantitatively and qualitatively. Although it is easier to have quantitative measurement than qualitative measurement, it is quite straightforward and common to have quantified data as a foundation to have qualitative analysis.

With the help of .NET tooling ecosystem and libraries available at our disposal, we can ensure the objectiveness of our performance measurement. It is also recommended to have a basic understanding of .NET CLR memory management as our foundation to have performance measurement from the perspective of qualitative analysis.

We will start exploring the aspects of performance optimizations with the knowledge and concept in this chapter, starting from F# data structures in Chapter 3, Optimizing Data Structures.