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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
