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F# High Performance

F# High Performance

By : Kusumawardhono
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F# High Performance

F# High Performance

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By: 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 (9 chapters)
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Introduction to the nature of F# code compilation

Before we measure .NET, we need to understand the nature of F# code and the nature of compiling the F# code. Of course, we can just analyze and look at the source code. We can also try to search for any patterns of non-performing code of known bottlenecks, which will be explained in Chapter 3,Optimizing Data Structures and Chapter 7, Language Features and Constructs Optimization.

General overview of F# compiler processes and results

All of the code in F# is compiled into byte codes of the IL assembly (as it's also an assembly language) either by the F# compiler or by using F# in interactive mode (by using FSI). This IL is then run in either Debug mode as Just In Time (JIT) code is further optimized by compiling it in Release mode. Running it in Release mode will yield compiled code to be optimized for .NET native by the Ahead Of Time (AOT) method.

For more information about .NET native, here is the official explanation in the MSDN Library...

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