No, I don’t think there is. The pool thread approach is probably the most pragmatic. Alternatively, I guess you could drop down to P/Invoke – but that would be a lot more work.
An important point that hasn’t been mentioned so far is the difference between if .. then .. else and if .. then without the else branch. If in functional languages The functional interpretation of if is that it is an expression that evaluates to some value. To evaluate the value of if c then e1 … Read more
The answer from @meziantou already gives a nice overview of the options (and how they behave differently), so let me just give a brief summary, or list of recommendations: Use let or let mutable if you want to define a local value that is visible only within the type (essentially a private field or a … Read more
List of Open Source F# Projects (Compiled): A Mathematical Application in F# that integrates Autocad via .NET Game Development Tutorials FsUnit Storm (a tool for testing Web Services) FParsec – F# Parser Combinator Library DownloadStockPrices – Written in F# Truskill – Xbox Live Player Rater (Written in F#) F# Collective Intelligence Implementation NDjango BistroFS – … Read more
My take is that replacing a language as rich and mature as C# would be very expensive. So, for example, at the moment, C# is absolutely the best choice for WinForms development if using the Visual Studio WinForms designer can give you an advantage: F# has no WinForms designer. C# also has better LINQ-to-SQL support … Read more
There isn’t a single place to look for resources on F# and machine learning, but here are a couple of links that may be quite useful: Numerical Computing section on MSDN is a good resource on using various numerical libraries from F#. The most advanced library that implements linear algebra and other algorithsm useful in … Read more
Natural F# code (e.g. functional/immutable) is slower than natural (imperative/mutable object-oriented) C# code. However, this kind of F# is much shorter than usual C# code. Obviously, there is a trade-off. On the other hand, you can, in most cases, achieve performance of F# code equal to performance of C# code. This will usually require coding … Read more
.fsx is for individual files intended to run as a script. In particular, in an .fsx file you can use things like #r “Foo.dll” to dynamically load a library and #load “Foo.fsx” to load another script file. [Edit: and starting with .NET 5, #r “nuget: FooBar” to load a NuGet package.] .fs is for source … Read more
In your original code, you only started one MailboxProcessor. Make wait() a function, and call it with each yield. Also you are not waiting for them to spin up or receive the messages, which I think invalidates the timing info; see my code below. That said, I have some success; on my box I can … Read more
You are missing dimensional analysis. For example (from the answer you linked to), in F# you can do this: let g = 9.8<m/s^2> and it will generate a new unit of acceleration, derived from meters and seconds (you can actually do the same thing in C++ using templates). In C#, it is possible to do … Read more