13 Sep
2009
13 Sep
'09
11:32 p.m.
The other morning, someone was telling me they had converted most of their VB financial/stock market code to F#. Whereas VB only used one core, the F# code used all four cores. In one software developers meeting, someone was saying that since database work is mostly all state, he didn't see the advantage of a functional programming language. It seems that, if you are doing at least moderately heavy computations, F# buys you a lot of speed on multiple cores. ------------------------------------------ It now occurs to me that he was using an older version of VB, before .NET or for earlier versions of .NET. So maybe the use of multiple cores is now supported by .NET more so than the progamming languages on top of it. -- Regards, Casey