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C is one of the most energy saving language (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For those who don't want to open threads, it's a link to a paper on energy efficiency of programming languages.

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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

it's crazy how efficient javascript has gotten

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming C is for compiled, V for virtual machine, I for interpreted.

Dart for sure is compiled, i think requiring a VM to run. It's a bit weird, but definitely not interpreted, unless you transpile to JavaScript.

Also, couldn't read the whole paper, but the numbers for Python are rather staggering. I remember reading on performance and there were massive differences between CPython, PyPy and a third one I can't recall. And that's surely to impact energy consumption.

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[–] 18107@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago*

while(1);

Not if I'm writing it.

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No assembly?

[–] stm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago

Damn I'm polluting with my python apps