While environmentalists loosing their shit about carbon footprint of blockchains and LLM models — I have another question: has anyone tried to estimate comparative carbon footprint of JS/JVM/.NET JiT compilers? I mean, like, seriously — instead if shipping pre-compiled binary artifacts we forcing millions of clients with nearly identical hardware and software configuration to perform the same set of unnecessary heavy computations every time when someone visits random web page or opens random app

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