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Re:Energy Efficiency in Programming Languages by CalChris on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:32AM (#15265061)
I don't intuitively understand why Go was so space efficient (#2 and ahead of C) but then so time+energy inefficient wrt C (3.23 and 2.83 vs 1.00 and 1.00).

Any clues?

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Re:Energy Efficiency in Programming Languages by Lev1a on Saturday September 16, 2017 @03:40PM (#15266322)
My guess would be that Go's GC (which is supposedly pretty good) takes care of space but pushes up time and CPU usage anyway.
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Re:Energy Efficiency in Programming Languages by iainmerrick on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:49AM (#15273476)
No, GC shouldn't take that much time.
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Re:Energy Efficiency in Programming Languages by Lev1a on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:07AM (#15274365)
I assume it just adds up in these kinds of "benchmark" tests.
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