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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

Chapter 5. Advanced Concurrency Support in F#

We now have a basic understanding of F# concurrency features, including using and implementing the best practices of F# asynchronous workflow, and combining the asynchronous workflow with .NET APM, EAP, and TAP.

We have seen that Control.Async is the basic building block of all related asynchronous workflows, in terms of using it and also carefully deciding the best practices of using a returned object, especially when we have a nice construct of Disposable pattern in the asynchronous workflow.

Know only that the asynchronous workflow features in F# are not unique, in that C#/VB already has them, and C#/VB's async construct is actually inspired by F#. We can further harness the F# advanced asynchronous workflow implementation of MailboxProcessor, as part of learning and leveraging the advanced concurrency support in F#.

Again, we will see that there are no silver bullets for all kinds of concurrency problems. We shall see this fact applies to MailboxProcessor...