Summary
We discussed the introduction to performing common performance optimizations, from the performance characteristics of F# and .NET to the most commonly used optimization concepts such as concurrency. We also have a basic knowledge to start troubleshooting performance problems by debugging using Visual Studio. But debugging running F# code is still a small part of performance optimization because debugging only provides an insight of the values and the states of objects in our code.
The debug support of F# tooling itself is not enough to fully understand the details of performance problems because most of the detailed performance optimization requires us to measure the benchmark of our code. The measurement of performance in order to objectively measure optimization will be described in Chapter 2 , Performance Measurement.
