# How does Julia compare to shell scripting using bash and its "friends" like bc on a Linux system?

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Performance is a pretty simple one. With bc, `3^10000000 % 101` takes about 30 seconds, while in Julia

```julia
julia> @time big(3)^10000000 % 101
  0.054018 seconds

```

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