Functional programming and multicore architecture

Question

I\'ve read somewhere that functional programming is suitable to take advantage of multi-core trend in computing. I didn\'t really get the idea. Is it related to the lambda c

Answer 1

Omitting any technical/scientific terms the reason is because functional program doesn't share data. Data is copied and transfered among functions, thus there is no shared data in the application.

And shared data is what causes half the headaches with multithreading.