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F# High Performance
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F# High Performance

by Eriawan Kusumawardhono
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
7h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Overview of common bottlenecks

F# has common bottlenecks although they might be subtle as well.

In order to be able to quickly understand the bottleneck factors in F#, we will categorize the shared general bottlenecks of .NET as managed bottlenecks (also in C#/VB), and F#-only bottlenecks (this includes when using F# with other languages).

The following are managed .NET bottlenecks (from obvious to less obvious):

  • String concatenations, such as using string String.Concat instead of StringBuilder. This is often overlooked because of a lack of awareness of the string's immutability.
  • Usage of non-generic collections such as ArrayList.
  • Incorrectly handling side effects, such as exceptions and I/O.
  • Mutable objects usage, including casting.
  • Complex objects ...
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ISBN: 9781786468079