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F# High Performance

You're reading from   F# High Performance Increase your F# programming productivity and focus on performance optimization with best practices, expert techniques, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468079
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eriawan Kusumawardhono Eriawan Kusumawardhono
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Performing Common Optimizations in F# FREE CHAPTER 2. Performance Measurement 3. Optimizing Data Structures 4. Introduction to Concurrency in F# 5. Advanced Concurrency Support in F# 6. Optimizing Type Provider 7. Language Features and Constructs Optimization 8. Optimizing Computation Expressions

Using F# MailboxProcessor


F# has extensive features of asynchronous operations such as the way it uniquely separates and differentiates from other .NET-managed languages, such as C#/VB, Managed C++, Nemerle, IronPython, and IronRuby. But at the same time, it runs on top of .NET CLR, providing high compatibility with other languages.

F#'s own unique asynchronous features are not just the asynchronous workflows; it has a class that acts as a message passing agent or actor, MailboxProcessor. The MailboxProcessor feature was introduced at the same time as asynchronous workflow was released, and the implementation of MailboxProcessor itself is actually an implementation of a set of asynchronous workflows.

Background case of having message agent

The advantage of having an asynchronous model is the fact that we don't have to wait for the operation or task to be completely finished before doing something else, especially the next operations. The advantage that we don't have to wait for the completion...

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