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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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Chapter 8. Optimizing Computation Expressions

One of the most-used and unique features of F# is asynchronous workflow, and we have discussed this with the introduction to concurrency optimization in Chapter 4, Introduction to Concurrency in F#. The asynchronous workflow itself is actually an implementation of a computation expression, a feature that enables us to have a computation. This computation is, in fact, a sequence of workflows of functions that is composed sequentially and has bindings to bind or combine them.

The computation expression has many kinds of helper methods to implement, but using these helpers can be overkill, and it may have some overheads as well if it is not constructed properly. It is not as subtle and hard as the previous ...

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