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C is one of the most energy saving language (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31184706

C is one of the top languages in terms of speed, memory and energy

https://www.threads.com/@engineerscodex/post/C9_R-uhvGbv?hl=en

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And it powers a lot of phones. People generally don't like it when their phone needs to charge all the freaking time.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I ran Linux with KDE on my phone for a while and it for sure needed EVEN MORE charging all the time even though most of the system is C, with a sprinkle of C++ and QT.

    But that is probably due to other inefficiencies and lack of optimization (which is fine, make it work first, optimize later)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, and Android has had some 16 years of "optimize later". I have some very very limited experience with writing mobile apps and while I found it to be a PITA, there is clearly a lot of thought given to how to not eat all the battery and die in the ecosystem there. I would expect that kind of work to also be done at the JVM level.

    If Windows Mobile had succeeded, C# likely would've been lower as well, just because there'd be more incentive to make a battery charge last longer.

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