On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:39:29AM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> If you want your students to be future proof then you would do well
> to prepare them for massively parallel computing on CPUs with
> hundreds or even thousands of cores. OCaml it completely
> ill-equipped for this. In contrast, F# provides native
> threads/locks/semaphores/threads/threadpools inherited from .NET as
> well as async programming via extra syntax. Concurrency is beautiful
> in F# and it works today.

F# scales to hundreds or thousands of cores?

If the OP wants to teach his students about massively parallel
computing, he should avoid the Microsoft lock-in and teach them about
it on Linux clusters.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat