Resumen:
In the field of algorithms and data structures analysis and design, most of the researchers
focus only on the space/time trade-off, and little attention has been paid to energy consumption. Moreover,
most of the efforts in the field of Green Computing have been devoted to hardware-related issues, being
green software in its infancy. Optimizing the usage of computing resources, minimizing power consumption
or increasing battery life are some of the goals of this field of research.
As an attempt to address the most recent sustainability challenges, we must incorporate the energy
consumption as a first-class constraint when designing new compact data structures. Thus, as a preliminary
work to reach that goal, we first need to understand the factors that impact on the energy consumption
and their relation with compression. In this work, we study the energy consumption required by several
integer vector representations. We execute typical operations over datasets of different nature. We can see
that, as commonly believed, energy consumption is highly related to the time required by the process, but
not always. We analyze other parameters, such as number of instructions, number of CPU cycles, memory
loads, among others.
