Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468079
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Eriawan Kusumawardhono Eriawan Kusumawardhono
Author Profile Icon Eriawan Kusumawardhono
Eriawan Kusumawardhono
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

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

Identifying blocking threads

A thread, from the perspective of interactions with other threads, is divided into two kinds: non-blocking thread and blocking thread. A non-blocking thread is usually a thread that does not block any other thread.

A blocking thread means a thread that does operations that often force the execution context to wait for other operations. By nature, in this context of operations, there can be many kinds of operations and interactions with other kinds of subsystem components such as I/O and CPU thread counter such as the operation performed in System.Threading.Thread.Sleep.

Overview of the background technical reasons for the blocking nature of I/O

I/O is never separated from the implementation and usage of our application, especially applications that deal with networking and sending commands to an output device outside the scope of the subsystem, such as printers. It is often ignored, but it is becoming relevant that as a running application is expected to be as...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime