Chapter 1, Performing Common Optimizations in F#, introduces F# and gives an overview of the common problems in F# code.

Chapter 2, Performance Measurement, helps you get to know what and how to measure and the tooling ecosystem to measure performance.

Chapter 3, Optimizing Data Structures, helps you decide the best and the most optimal use of F#-specific data structures and optimize them.

Chapter 4, Introduction to Concurrency in F#, provides a general introduction to the concept of concurrency and concurrency implementation support in F#.

Chapter 5, Advanced Concurrency Support in F#, provides best practices in implementing advanced concurrency support in F#, including interop with .NET TPL and avoiding performance pitfalls.

Chapter 6, Optimizing Type Provider, gives a quick walk-through of type provider implementation, while at the same time providing optimization and avoiding performance pitfalls in implementing your own custom type providers.

Chapter 7, Language Features and Constructs Optimization, explains best practices when implementing and using various F# language features and constructs without sacrificing the performance and correctness in functional programming.

Chapter 8, Optimizing Computation Expressions, explains best practices in using F# computation workflows and optimizing your own implementation of a computation workflow.

This book is for F# developers who want to build high-performance applications. Knowledge of functional programming would be helpful.

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In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv = 
    printfn "Hello F# world"
    0 // return an integer exit code

If there is a line (or lines) of code that needs to be highlighted, it is set as follows:

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv =
    printfn "Hello F# world"
    0 // return an integer exit code

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen."

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