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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

Introduction to memory storage allocation


The type of storage in memory to store the data value according to the CLI standard specification basically falls into these three storage categories (from fastest to slowest):

  • Register

  • Stack

  • Heap

Register

Register is the fastest to access, because it does not have memory allocation overheads compared to stack and heap. The concept of register is similar to the processor's register. This register is not the same as stack and heap; it is related to how the value is stored in the code. Usage of register in CLR is translated into any of the processor's registers, and depends on the platform used. For example, when running on x86/x64 processors, Intel's general purpose register of EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX will be used.

Stack

The nature of stack is LIFO, abbreviated from last in first out. It means that data is stored not in a first come, first served basis, but the last one stored is the first one that can be read, as data is stored from the bottom to the highest...

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