Here's a benchmark that includes an energy comparison: https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-l... . It's interesting that speed does not directly correlate with energy consumption and the the energy consumption of functional languages was much higher than imperative.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted when you’re the only response with actual data whereas the other responses are defending clearly less efficient practices with gobbledegook about O(1) memory algorithms and whatnot.
I think most of it is coming from overly defensive users of GC languages . Sometime the world you want is not the world that exists.
