# Comparison of automatic differentiation tools from 2016 still accurate?

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**Category:** Numerics\
**Tags:** differentiation\
**Created:** [January 13, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comparison-of-automatic-differentiation-tools-from-2016-still-accurate/8341 "2018-01-13T14:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comparison-of-automatic-differentiation-tools-from-2016-still-accurate/8341/10 "2018-01-14T11:17:27Z")

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Perhaps someone could consider making a PR to the benchmark repo?

That said, the general problem with these kind of benchmarks is that they tend to get obsolete very quickly. Hopefully Julia will get [even better AD](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/probabilistic-programming-with-source-transformations/8047/61) in the medium run.

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