# Computational Speed

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/computational-speed/22572>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [March 31, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/computational-speed/22572 "2019-03-31T22:28:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/computational-speed/22572/11 "2019-04-01T00:19:55Z")

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FYI, benchmarking the inversion of a large matrix only depends on the BLAS library that is linked; it basically has nothing to do with the language. See also [OpenBLAS: Julia slower than R - #2 by stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blas-julia-slower-than-r/21594/2)

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