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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (59 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] 41 points 1 week ago (53 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For Lua I think it's just for the interpreted version, I've heard that LuaJIT is amazingly fast (comparable to C++ code), and that's what for example Löve (game engine) uses, and probably many other projects as well.

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