> ..., not to mention wasting enormous amounts of hardware and electricity.
I wonder how legitimate this concern is from an environmental angle. On one hand a lot of code in the world probably has much worse performance ratios than than the one described in the article -- using python is sufficient to cause an order of performance loss. On the other hand data centers are using more renewable energy sources and reducing their carbon output.
Is this only a wasted money problem? How worth while is it to write "green code"? Back of the envelope calculations on how much developer comfort costs would be interesting.
I wonder how legitimate this concern is from an environmental angle. On one hand a lot of code in the world probably has much worse performance ratios than than the one described in the article -- using python is sufficient to cause an order of performance loss. On the other hand data centers are using more renewable energy sources and reducing their carbon output.
Is this only a wasted money problem? How worth while is it to write "green code"? Back of the envelope calculations on how much developer comfort costs would be interesting.