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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

it's crazy how efficient javascript has gotten

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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.