Optimising Energy Consumption of Design Patterns

Adel Noureddine (1) , Ajitha Rajan (1)

1 LFCS - Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science [Edinburgh]

Software design patterns are widely used in software engineering to enhance productivity and maintainability. However, recent empirical studies revealed the high energy overhead in these patterns. Our vision is to automatically detect and transform design patterns during compilation for better energy efficiency without impacting existing coding practices. In this paper, we propose compiler transformations for two design patterns, Observer and Decorator, and perform an initial evaluation of their energy efficiency.

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Adel Noureddine, Ajitha Rajan. Optimising Energy Consumption of Design Patterns. International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2015, Florence, Italy. ⟨hal-01176066⟩