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Has anyone done a separate study to corroborate, contradict, or otherwise update the work of this 2017 paper?

https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...

Also, a suggestion for anyone who plans to do an update: please put a version number on the languages you use, and also note which specific versions of compilers, VMs, GCs, etc. were used.

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Indeed! This followup used sample code from the Rosetta Code wiki:

https://haslab.github.io/SAFER/scp21.pdf

The rankings move a little bit, but the relative positions of Go and Rust don't.

On page 258, the 2017 paper tells you where to find that information:

    The measuring framework and the complete set
    of results are publicly available at 

    https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages

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