Should also add that all significant energy gains in the last 50 odd years are result of new hardware NOT software. https://t.co/mgik9WpTe3
— Joe Armstrong (@joeerl) April 10, 2019
Once upon a time my boss asked me to study if we should use C++ or Erlang for a specialist XML parser to be used in a product (for reasons of speed not energy).
— Joe Armstrong (@joeerl) April 10, 2019
My recommendations was an FPGA
We built an FPGA.
Relative speed of C++/Erlang was irrelevant compared to FPGA. https://t.co/jHy6KMxcsl
Energy usage is *very* complicated – If you want low energy use VLSI or an FPGA and NOT a programming language – true total lifecycle energy costs are very very difficult to calculate – more of a physics/hardware question than a programming problem.