python speed

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

It seems that Java JDK 1.4 (-server) HotSpot compiler sometimes (in
this test, on this computer, etc.) can produce programs faster than C
and Fortran ones in n-body simulations and similar stuff:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=all
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=all

So maybe PyPy can become quite fast too.

Bye,
bearophile