I think that hardware factors like those are generally irrelevant when it comes to purely software issues, like we're discussing here. In this case, we're talki

I think that hardware factors like those are generally irrelevant when it comes to purely software issues, like we're discussing here. In this case, we're talking about an energy consumption penalty imposed solely at the software layer. Aside from arguments about the screen perhaps not needing to be used as long when the software completes its operations faster, I think it's probably safe to say that such hardware-specific energy consumption due to the factors you mention would be constant in both the case of compiled applications and the case of interpreted applications.