{"id":3520,"date":"2013-10-21T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2013-10-21T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:52:19","slug":"carbon-footprint-of-interpreted-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/carbon-footprint-of-interpreted-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon footprint of interpreted languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thought from a good discussion with at Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois<\/a> at OSDC<\/a> today, what is the carbon footprint of various languages? He mentioned that the carbon footprint of a new Haskell compiler release is remarkably non-trivial due to every Haskell package in Debian needing to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n

So, I thought, what’s the impact of something like Python? (or Perl). Every machine running the code has to do the bytecode compilation\/JIT\/interpretation of that code so when, say, Ubuntu ships some new version of $random_desktop_thing_written_in_python, we’re actually compiling it well over 20 million times. That’s a remarkably non-trivial amount of CPU time (and thus CO2 emissions).<\/p>\n

So, program in compiled languages such as C or C++ as doing so will save polar bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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