hello.

I am curious as to how F# performance compares to C++ performance? I asked a similar question with regards to Java, and the impression I got was that Java is not suitable for heavy numbercrunching.

I have read that F# is supposed to be more scalable and more performant, but how is this real-world performance compares to C++? specific questions about current implementation are:

• How well does it do floating-point?
• Does it allow vector instructions
• how friendly is it towards optimizing compilers?
• How big a memory foot print does it have? Does it allow fine-grained control over memory locality?
• does it have capacity for distributed memory processors, for example Cray?
• what features does it have that may be of interest to computational science where heavy number processing is involved?
• Are there actual scientific computing implementations that use it?

Thanks