Measuring and Analysing Erlang’s Energy Usage

Energy efficiency in software development has become an increasingly important research area in recent years. Previous studies investigated the impact of programming language and coding practices on energy consumption. The studies show that the Erlang programming language consumes more energy compared to other languages. In this paper, we would like to demonstrate that Erlang’s energy behaviour is significantly better than the previous thought when a problem close to Erlang’s design is measured. Therefore, when we are creating green software, we need to consider not only the programming language but also the problem domain.