On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 19:10 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> Parallelism is easy in F#.

Now, that's a cliffhanger. Could you elaborate ?

Cheers,
 David

> > I think that the cost of copying data is totally overrated. We are doing
> > this often, and even over the network, and hey, we are breaking every
> > speed limit.
> 
> You cannot afford to pay that price for parallel implementations of most 
> numerical algorithms.

Er... Not being a specialist, I may be wrong, but I seem to remember
that you can afford that, as long as you're also doing something else
during that copy.

> On the contrary, that is not a theoretical statement at all: it
> already 
> happened. F# already makes it much easier to write high performance
> parallel 
> algorithms and its concurrent GC is the crux of that capability.

Examples ? Pretty please ?

Cheers,
 David

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