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

The book Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong (the creator of Erlang) talks quite a bit about using Erlang for multicore(/multiprocessor) systems. As the wikipedia article states:

Creating and managing processes is trivial in Erlang, whereas threads are considered a complicated and error-prone topic in most languages. Though all concurrency is explicit in Erlang, processes communicate using message passing instead of shared variables, which removes the need for locks.