# Any benchmark comparing Julia on Windows vs Linux vs OSX?

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**Category:** Performance\
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-benchmark-comparing-julia-on-windows-vs-linux-vs-osx/18394 "2018-12-06T20:18:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-benchmark-comparing-julia-on-windows-vs-linux-vs-osx/18394/8 "2021-06-29T20:55:24Z")

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> [@Comparison of Windows 10 and Linux Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comparison-of-windows-10-and-linux-julia/41227):
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> I was curious about some recent observations I made concerning the speed of sparse-matrix solve. Here are some measurements comparing Windows 10, WSL2, and Ubuntu 20.4, all running on the same laptop(HP Spectre 360 i7 at 3.1 GHz, 16 GB of memory). Serial execution with default number of threads. Assembly of the left-hand side matrix and the right hand side vector [(source).](https://github.com/PetrKryslUCSD/Elfel.jl/blob/master/examples/heat/heat_poisson_q4_alt_wgradN.jl). 4.2 million degrees of freedom. [image] Solution of 4.2 million coupled linear algebraic equations. Default sparse matr…

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