>I think the whole multiple core thing is over blown in association with functional programming. I think it would be pretty misguided for someone to adopt a fun

>I think the whole multiple core thing is over blown in association with functional programming. I think it would be pretty misguided for someone to adopt a functional programming with multiple cores in mind. The multiple core thing, it not overblown. Clock speed scaling ended a few years ago. Single thread performance scaling is dead, and we need a paradigm shift to deal with the multi-core future. Intel MIC has 80 cores and it is only the beginning. We need new tools to handle this new level of parallelism. It’s likely that some form of functional, flow-Based, or reactive programming will emerge as the tool of choice in this coming era.