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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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Preface

It’s well-known today that F# has been quite a first class citizen, a built-in part of programming language support in Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2010. F# is a programming language that has its own unique trait: it is a functional programming language, and at the same time, it has OOP support. F# has run on .NET until now, although we can also run F# as a cross-platform language, such as on Android (using Mono).

Although F# mostly runs faster than C# or VB when doing computations, F# has its own unique performance characteristics. Some of the performance characteristics might not be so obviously identified and code implementations might have implicit bad practices and subtleties that may lead to performance bottlenecks. The bottlenecks ...

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