# Benchmark MATLAB & Julia for Matrix Operations

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/benchmark-matlab-julia-for-matrix-operations/2000>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Created:** [February 9, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/benchmark-matlab-julia-for-matrix-operations/2000 "2017-02-09T12:50:37Z")\
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> [@RoyiAvital](#):
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> Hopefully Multi Threaded Broadcasts + Loop Fusion will be in shortly.

Loop fusion is pretty close to being released:

> [@0.6 release timeline](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/0-6-release-timeline/836/27):
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> Another update: there are now only four feature changes remaining for 0.6 – the top four on [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/20](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/20). Of course, a couple of those are pretty major, e.g. the two issues constituting “the great type keyword rename”. Actual feature freeze is imminent.

As for multi-threading it, I just bumped the issue:

> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19777>
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> It would be nice to be able to put \`@threads\` in front of a dot call, e.g. \`@thr…eads X .= f.(Y)\`, and have it call a multi-threaded version of \`broadcast\` (which would assume \`f\` is thread-safe).

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