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Re:Ask HN: How can I as a Computer Scientist contribute to b... by BoysenberryPi on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:47PM (#17763255)
My immediate reaction to this is that this is ridiculous but there after thinking about it there might be some merit to this idea. Do you have any other resources or articles on energy efficient programming? I would like to explore this more.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I as a Computer Scientist contribute to b... by open-source-ux on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:58PM (#17777978)
Here's one link:

Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How does energy, time, and memory relate?

https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages

Here's the Hacker News discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289

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Re:Ask HN: How can I as a Computer Scientist contribute to b... by jarjarbinks455 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:11PM (#17777156)
The creator of c++ has similar thoughts about how c++ usage for Google search reduces co2 emissions. It's significant reduction. Reduces as much as a while city may produce.
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