What do you think of multiline lambdas in VB 10

Question

I was just watching a video on MSDN Channel 9 which can be found here, about some of the new features in Visual Basic 10. Now I like most of the new features, some of which hav

Answer 1

You are going to need multi-line once we get the ParallelFX library.

For example, lets say you wanted to make this loop parallel:

For i = 0 to 100
  '12 lines of code'
Next

The parallel version would be:

Parallel.For( 0, 100, sub(i)
  '12 lines of code'
  End Sub )

It works by turning the guts of the loop into a brand new sub. That new sub is called by N threads, N usually being the number of available cores.