@kensanata
To be honest I don't see much point in such comparisons:
- energy demanding things are delegated to low level libraries anyways
- doesn't factor in energy usage of developer teams (how much energy does a team of developers use in say a month, if it takes a month longer to develop in a low level language. Not even talking about maintenance yet (difficult to debug low level bugs))
I have other thoughts but can't remember now and maybe more fitting for a blog post.
@kensanata
For instance, one of the most energy demanding things ever (apart from quantum physical DFT simulations and weather forecasting) is deep learning. I don't think anyone here can, in one year of programming time, implement neural networks less energy hungry than one could in "Python" in 5 minutes. Of course python delegates the heavy tasks. I think this is a good model.
@maltimore interesting, tending towards a holistic metric. @kensanata
