{"id":4528,"date":"2014-02-24T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T19:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2014-02-24T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T19:54:59","slug":"inefficient-code-leads-to-power-inefficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/inefficient-code-leads-to-power-inefficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Inefficient code leads to inefficient use of electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m streaming launch festival today, and\u00a0Kanishk Parashar of <a href=\"https:\/\/onlycoin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coin<\/a> was speaking &#8211; talking about why what they&#8217;re working on hasn&#8217;t already been done.<\/p>\n<p>One thing he noted was &#8220;writing code that is low energy as well&#8221; &#8211; efficient code with low power hardware i.e. bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>That reminded me of an article my good friend Dan Heier sent me, focused on <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/sustainable-web-design\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Web Design<\/a>, that is it looks at the real cost of serving up a web page. \u00a0I.e.\u00a0A 2008 paper from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests it takes 13kWh to transmit 1GB!<\/p>\n<p>Apple is focused on this as well building an energy score on apps in Maverick &#8211; meaning you can see what impact an application has on your battery life.<\/p>\n<p>Worth thinking about, how does our code impact the power consumption at the other end and what&#8217;s the real cost of that?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m streaming launch festival today, and\u00a0Kanishk Parashar of Coin was speaking &#8211; talking about why what they&#8217;re working on hasn&#8217;t already been done. One thing he noted was &#8220;writing code that is low energy as well&#8221; &#8211; efficient code with low power hardware i.e. bluetooth. That reminded me of an article my good friend Dan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[424,964,1224],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}