On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:18:27AM +0100, Mark Shannon wrote: > Since, faster == less energy for the same amount of work, making CPython > faster will reduce the amount of CO2 produced to do that work and > hopefully make it less of a concern.
Work expands to fill the time available: if Python is 10% more efficient, people will use that extra speed to do 10% more work. There will be no nett savings in CO2 and if anything a faster Python will lead to more people using it and hence a nett increase in Python's share of the CO2 emissions. Let's make Python faster, but don't fool ourselves that we're doing it for the environment. Every time people improve the efficiency of some resource, we respond by using more of that resource. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/KWKEBEW5U6CTBQCBDEHBD62WHNZYQ33P/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
