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

[Peter Maas]

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.

Peter Maas, Aachen