{"id":2873,"date":"2007-12-19T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/pfxteam\/2007\/12\/19\/f-and-the-task-parallel-library\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T18:51:00","slug":"f-and-the-task-parallel-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/f-and-the-task-parallel-library\/","title":{"rendered":"F# and the Task Parallel Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on his blog, Don Syme has a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dsyme\/archive\/2007\/12\/18\/using-parallel-extensions-from-f.aspx\">post<\/a> about <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dsyme\/archive\/2007\/10\/17\/s-somasegar-on-taking-f-forward.aspx\">F#<\/a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=e848dc1d-5be3-4941-8705-024bc7f180ba\">Parallel Extensions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Over the coming year&nbsp;I expect we&#8217;ll be seeing this library used very widely from F#, and we&#8217;ll eventually be using the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/salvapatuel\/archive\/2007\/11\/11\/task-parallel-library-explored.aspx\">TPL<\/a>&nbsp;as a key underlying technology for <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dsyme\/archive\/2007\/10\/11\/introducing-f-asynchronous-workflows.aspx\">F# asynchronous workflows<\/a>. TPL excels at CPU-intensive parallelism and exploiting multiple cores, especially in conjunction with functional programming. This makes it ideal for use with F#.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Exciting stuff. In the meantime, you can see an example of the Task Parallel Library being used from F# on <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/undirectedgrad.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/f-and-task-parallel-library.html\">Jurgen van Gael&#8217;s&nbsp;blog<\/a>. Thanks for the example, Jurgen!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on his blog, Don Syme has a post about F# and Parallel Extensions: &#8220;Over the coming year&nbsp;I expect we&#8217;ll be seeing this library used very widely from F#, and we&#8217;ll eventually be using the TPL&nbsp;as a key underlying technology for F# asynchronous workflows. TPL excels at CPU-intensive parallelism and exploiting multiple cores, especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7908],"tags":[73,7909,7912],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pfxteam","tag-f","tag-parallel-extensions","tag-task-parallel-library"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Over on his blog, Don Syme has a post about F# and Parallel Extensions: &#8220;Over the coming year&nbsp;I expect we&#8217;ll be seeing this library used very widely from F#, and we&#8217;ll eventually be using the TPL&nbsp;as a key underlying technology for F# asynchronous workflows. TPL excels at CPU-intensive parallelism and exploiting multiple cores, especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}