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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

About the Author

Eriawan Kusumawardhono is a veteran senior software development engineer (SDE) who has software development experience of more than 13 years, with 11 years of having developed in .NET, since the introduction of Visual Studio 2003. On usual working day he works at Allegro Development, a software development company, and in his spare time, he does speaking and training for software development and programming language communities in Indonesia. He is also a member of F# Foundation speaker program. He enjoys being a full-time technical polyglot software developer, mingling both OOP and functional programming at the same time.

He currently holds a Microsoft MVP award in Visual Studio development platform competency, from 2011 to 2017, for more than 5 consecutive years.

He lives in Jakarta with his wife, enjoying reading and cooking heterogeneous exotic food in Indonesia.

Many thanks to Microsoft, especially Microsoft Research, and Don Syme for developing F#, a functional programming that meets OOP nicely and truly pragmatic! I would like to give special thanks to Packt for giving me the chance to write this wonderful book and Nikhil for his continuous support and always giving me constructive feedback. I also would like to give a big huge thanks for my lovely wife, Dini Kusumawardhono, for always giving me unconditional love and support during the writing of this book and also her continuous understanding every day. I would like to dedicate this book to software development communities in Indonesia, and to all of the F# developer communities around the world. F# rocks!