Hi there, We did a related experiment with VA Smalltalk and other languages like Python, Java, etc... the context was how a JIT compiler can also help you reduce energy consumption...which could be very important for IoT. We did experiments on a Raspberry Pi, run some benchmarks and with some hardware tool we were measuring the wattage.
You can see the whole presentation here: https://youtu.be/2xO0ohUNnug Hopefully this can get you started with Pharo experiments. Cheers, On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 8:47 AM Jonathan van Alteren < jvalte...@objectguild.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am interested in energy efficiency metrics for Pharo (version >=8). Just > now, I came across this research and related GitHub project: > > - https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages > - https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages > > > Unfortunately, the paper mentions that Smalltalk was excluded from the > results because the (VW) compiler was proprietary :-S However, the GitHub > repository does contain Smalltalk code and results, but I haven't been able > to evaluate those. > > [1] Does anyone here have more information on this topic? > > > The benchmarks seem to be low-level algorithms. Although that is useful, I > think that a better argument for Pharo/Smalltalk efficiency is that a good > OO design (e.g. created using responsibility-driven design with > behaviorally complete objects) will be a better fit, can be much simpler > and will thus be more efficient during development, as well as easier to > maintain and evolve. > > [2] Has anyone done any research in this area that can quantify this > aspect? > > Kind regards, > > Jonathan van Alteren > > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. > *Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations* > > jvalte...@objectguild.com > -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianop...@gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-martinez-peck <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/> Blog: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/
