> Hi Stéphane, > > Thanks for your feedback. I agree that the usefulness of these results is > limited. However, if we (Object Guild) want to make a case for energy > efficiency, it can help if the language itself can be shown to be efficient > as well.
I do not know what is energy efficient nor how it is measurable. Now our objectives is that pharo does not burn the batteries when doing nothing and we start to have that with the headless and idle vm. > For now, I think the efficiency will need to come from a good object design. this would presume that message passing is faster than branching. And I remember that we had argument with hardware people about our reengineering pattern on condition to polymorphism > > Kind regards, > > Jonathan van Alteren > > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. > Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations > >
