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by ChrisRR 1070 days ago
Everything consumes more energy than C
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Sometimes I wonder if that's true long term. The amount of bugs, security issues, and code churn surrounding C code bases is pretty wild. If everybody and all their deployments has to recompile a C code base 100 times over the course of three years to get patches, fixes, etc it makes me wonder what the real cost of C is?

My intuition states that this isn't the case, but intuition can be wrong.

Most people don't run Gentoo so binaries are only compiled once.
no, VHDL and Verilog consume less
C is not low-level enough for it to be even remotely true.
Except ASM, AVX etc.
And, see above, Fortran.