On 2006-10-06, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The Perl program is obfuscated to speed it up; it uses an array of planet property arrays instead of objects. Of course, perhaps that's the right way to do it in Perl. A python solution that indexed lists instead of looking up attributes of objects might be faster. -- Neil Cerutti We're not afraid of challenges. It's like we always say: If you want to go out in the rain, be prepared to get burned. --Brazillian soccer player -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
