As with almost any performance work, your mileage may vary (in particular the 64-bit JIT may work differently) and you almost certainly shouldn't care. Relatively few people write production code which is worth micro-optimizing. Please don't take this pos[...]

SOLID and its relevance to F# There has been an increasing amount of exposure for F# and functional programming lately.  If you come from an object-orientated background a change in mindset is required when working with functional programming, there is a[...]

SOLID and its relevance to F#  There has been an increasing amount of exposure for F# and functional programming lately.  If you come from an object-orientated background a change in mindset is required when working with functional programming, there is a[...]

SOLID and its relevance to FThere has been an increasing amount of exposure for F# and functional programming lately. If you come from an object-orientated background a change in mindset is required when working with functional programming, there is[...]

As with almost any performance work, your mileage may vary (in particular the 64-bit JIT may work differently) and you almost certainly shouldn't care. Relatively few people write production code which is worth micro-optimizing. Please don't take this pos[...]

In the previous post I explained, at a very high level, that monads are really about function composition with side activities. In this post, I will use an example based on F#’s Async monad to demonstrate practical uses of monads. … Continue reading →

In order to upgrade only a subset of the outdated packages for macports: port outdated | grep py2 | awk ‘{print $1}’ | tr “\n” “ “ | sed ‘s/^/sudo port upgrade /g’ | sh To only update the packages with anything to do with “py2”.