2020/12/07 by Wellington da Silva Oliveira, Oliveira, Wellington, Hugo Matalonga +7
Computer Science · Engineering · #Caching and Content Delivery #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Green IT and Sustainability #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Web Data Mining and Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.03738
openalex publication_date 2020/12/07 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In the last few years, a growing body of research has proposed methods, techniques, and tools to support developers in the construction of software that consumes less energy. These solutions leverage diverse approaches such as version history mining, analytical models, identifying energy-efficient color schemes, and optimizing the packaging of HTTP requests. In this chapter, we present a complementary approach. We advocate that developers should leverage software diversity to make software systems more energy-efficient. Our main insight is that non-specialists can build software that consumes less energy by alternating at development time between readily available, diversely-designed pieces of software implemented by third-parties. These pieces of software can vary in nature, granularity, and quality attributes. Examples include data structures and constructs for thread management and synchronization.