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In any language I can write efficient or inefficient code.

Practically you could make some kind of synthetic benchmark for each language but then you would have to look at the whole system holistically.

AMD epyc vs IBM Power vs RISC V vs ARM is going to be one set of things to test.

For instance a server that shows google.com vs a server run by Microsoft’s project Oxford doing image classification as a service and a server that runs Reddit are going to have so many variables it’s probably impossible or would require a dedicated engineer(s) to benchmark it.

So basically so many systems are so bespoke it would be really hard.




I mean, you do still have to run the software! Take basically any online service and do implementations in Python and Rust -- I guarantee you there'll be a huge differences in amount of power used.

Or just run the same thing written in Python and Rust and your laptop, and see which one drains the battery faster.




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