# Fantastic progress in master branch!

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fantastic-progress-in-master-branch/6868
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Created:** [November 3, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fantastic-progress-in-master-branch/6868 "2017-11-03T20:39:36Z")
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### Author: ![pablosanjose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pablosanjose/32/7006_2.png) [@pablosanjose](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pablosanjose)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fantastic-progress-in-master-branch/6868/12 "2017-11-04T17:29:24Z")

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@Mason, this thread is pretty cool

> [@Benchmark for latest julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/benchmark-for-latest-julia/5991/53):
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> I posted this PR a few days back. It gets test/perf/micro running again on julia-0.7.0. It’s a few Makefile changes for libraries that have moved in the julia source tree since 0.4.0. [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/23922](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/23922) A few things/decisions remain before producing new benchmark data for publication: Getting Fortran to call BLAS. I tried @Ralph_Smith’s suggestion above but got utterly horrific rand\_mat\_mul results (~100 times slower). I need to double-check that I linked to the …

It has updated the benchmarks of Julia against other languages. The big surprise for me, and some other people, has been SciLua, which apparently has a really sophisticated JIT compiler… It appears to be about as fast as Julia at the moment… without Julia scratching the surface 😃

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