# How much power? How would Julia stack up?

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**Created:** [November 6, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-power-how-would-julia-stack-up/71051 "2021-11-06T15:53:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-power-how-would-julia-stack-up/71051/1 "2021-11-06T15:53:59Z")

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Interesting comparison: [https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=topic+optin&utm\_campaign=awareness&utm\_content=20211106+prog+nl&mkt\_tok=MTA3LUZNUy0wNzAAAAGAlL5XV7i5iCbcJu3TcHwHQirkndGGpWlL-301luS5qiRvmKQL2HtD457Toi81aPVEIidj9XxsNQWaPWG5vMDP7Ow04Lvkh9mkr1rISX43Gx4ttg](https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=topic+optin&utm_campaign=awareness&utm_content=20211106+prog+nl&mkt_tok=MTA3LUZNUy0wNzAAAAGAlL5XV7i5iCbcJu3TcHwHQirkndGGpWlL-301luS5qiRvmKQL2HtD457Toi81aPVEIidj9XxsNQWaPWG5vMDP7Ow04Lvkh9mkr1rISX43Gx4ttg)

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**Author:** ![lmiq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lmiq/32/18314_2.png) [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-power-how-would-julia-stack-up/71051/2 "2021-11-06T16:23:29Z")

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There is this comparison which includes Julia (there it ranked well):

[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01342-y](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01342-y)

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-power-how-would-julia-stack-up/71051/3 "2021-11-06T18:15:57Z")

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From the same authors:

> **[Original work in SLE'17 - Updated Functional results - 2020](https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/updated-functional-results-2020)**
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> Updated Compiler / Interpreter Versions (2020)

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**Author:** ![MatFi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/matfi/32/10002_2.png) [@MatFi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MatFi)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-power-how-would-julia-stack-up/71051/4 "2021-11-06T19:57:58Z")

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Is there actually any expected platform dependency for power consumption ( ARM, AMD64,Linux Win… ).?  
For the tests they used a Linux Ubuntu Server 16.10 with 16GB RAM and an Intel(R) Core™ i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz only.

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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-power-how-would-julia-stack-up/71051/5 "2021-11-07T02:33:42Z")

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I’m thinking it would be based on how well a laguage exploits archetectuer, so something like RISC wich is a type of assembler, and works with ARM would be near the top. But, Julia should be high for high level languages.