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Coming from imperative languages many developers wonder how to write a for-loop that exits early as F# doesn't support break, continue or return. The answer in F# is to use tail-recursion which is a flexible and idiomatic way to iterate while still providing excellent performance. Say we want to ...

This example is written with F# in mind but the ideas are applicable in all environments The first rule when optimizing for performance is to not to rely assumption; always Measure and Verify your assumptions. As we are not writing machine code directly it is hard to predict how the compiler an...

In F# there are many options for creating data pipelines, for example: List, Seq and Array. What data pipeline is preferable from memory usage and performance perspective? In order to answer this we'll compare performance and memory usage using different pipelines. Data Pipeline In order to me...