n-body problem at shootout.alioth.debian.org

[Giovanni Bajo]

Peter Maas wrote:

> I have noticed that in the language shootout at
> shootout.alioth.debian.org the Python program for the n-body problem
> is about 50% slower than the Perl program. This is an unusual big
> difference. I tried to make the Python program faster but without
> success. Has anybody an explanation for the difference? It's pure
> math so I expected Perl and Python to have about the same speed.

Did you try using an old-style class instead of a new-style class?
-- 
Giovanni Bajo