Python consumes 38x more energy than Java
While Java&#x27;s compiler or JIT is probably one of the most optimized softwares in existence, how do we measure, what overhead the language nudges the programmers to build? I am thinking of AbstractProviderFactoryProxy and similar. Or that for a very long time it forced you (or still does to a degree) to put everything into classes, breeding 1 or 2 generations of programmers, who see a noun and jump to making a class and then subsequently initializing the class to be able to call a method, which actually would only need to be a standalone function.<p>It probably does not balance the 38x, and probably the JIT optimizes parts of it away, but surely the cost is far from zero.<p>Also what about the computational resources it takes to just run a JVM, compared to running a Python program?