# How does Julia compare to J and other APL languages? 

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-julia-compare-to-j-and-other-apl-languages/10854>\
**Category:** Signal and Image Processing\
**Created:** [May 12, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-julia-compare-to-j-and-other-apl-languages/10854 "2018-05-12T09:28:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![\_richard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/f05b48/32.png) [@\_richard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/_richard)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-julia-compare-to-j-and-other-apl-languages/10854/1 "2018-05-12T09:28:11Z")

</div>

If speed is the primary consideration, is Julia faster?  
How does Julia deal with threading?  
I’m asking as a former SequenceL user.  
Thanks for any feedback!