# How much is it normal that @time differs in time?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-is-it-normal-that-time-differs-in-time/4466
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**Created:** [June 26, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-is-it-normal-that-time-differs-in-time/4466 "2017-06-26T08:24:37Z")
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#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-much-is-it-normal-that-time-differs-in-time/4466/21 "2017-06-28T17:05:38Z")

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I get about the same results with Julia 0.5.2 as with 0.6.0. My guess would be that the difference is due to different systems with different cache sizes, RAM speed, etc, causing both different compilation times and different amounts of overhead for the `@time` calls.

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