Programs that run directly on computer hardware use ten to fifty times less processor power than those running through web-style interpreters.

Web browsers use middleman programs called interpreters to read website code on the fly. This middleman makes things slow and heavy. In contrast, programs compiled directly into native machine code run straight on your computer's brain. This direct route is ten to fifty times faster and uses five to fifteen times less memory. By avoiding messy, interpreted web code for heavy tasks, we save massive amounts of electricity.