Re:Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2...
by Nvorzula on Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:26AM
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With regard to datacenter operators, I would argue that a simpler answer to that observation is that they are investing heavily in the are in which they can actually effect change. That is, they can swap in-and-out their hardware, but language of choice is largely up to their customers - the dev. They can advocate and champion a particular language, but really enforcing it in any meaningful way is narrow casting their own user base.
Re:Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2...
by codesushi42 on Saturday March 30, 2019 @06:22AM
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They could offer their own compilers or runtimes. Some big companies do. But most dollars and time is spent on hardware R&D and upgrades.
Facebook and Google both have in house chip designers these days, specifically for their data centers.
Or to put it another way. Why do you think mobile devices almost exclusively use ARM? Why do datacenter operators invest heavily in R&D for ASICs instead of engineering new languages or runtimes? Because languages play a secondary role in energy consumption.
This study is just like countless of other meaningless benchmarks seen in language war flame posts. Pointless and misses the big picture.