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Jomo Fisher—I’ve enjoyed reading the blog series on F# and game development here . Joh had posted an example of F# of using RK4 and showed some performance numbers comparing F# to C++ and OCaml. Don Syme had been reading too and asked if anyone on the F# team wanted to take a stab to see if they could...

Jomo Fisher—Here’s the F# I'm looking at today: #light let rec f n = do printf "%d\n" n f (n+1) f 1 This defines a recursive function 'f' that takes a value 'n' as a parameter. This function prints the value of n to the console and then calls itself with n+1. So we've defined a function that will count...

Jomo Fisher--Matt Warren once told me that the runtime had a performance optimization involving calling methods through an interface. If you only had a small number of implementations of a particular interface method the runtime could optimize the overhead of those calls. Coming from the C++ world where...

Jomo Fisher--Rico Mariani has been posting about LINQ to SQL perfomance and has finally posted the performance numbers for Beta2: http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2007/07/05/dlinq-linq-to-sql-performance-part-4.aspx One of the tricks Rico and Matt Warren used to get this stellar performance was...

Jomo Fisher--There are two kinds of programming problems—those that can run in parallel and those that can’t. There’s no special sauce that can turn an inherently serial problem into an efficient parallel algorithm. Today’s top-end desktop has eight cores spread across two processors. All of the cores...

Jomo Fisher—I’ve run into a performance problem several times in my career that I’ve never found a truly satisfying answer for until now. The problem can be distilled down to this: Look up a value based on a string key. The set of strings is fixed and no unknown key values can occur. Consider my...