# How to extract histogram from @benchmark results
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-extract-histogram-from-benchmark-results/131245
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** benchmarktools
**Created:** [July 31, 2025, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-extract-histogram-from-benchmark-results/131245 "2025-07-31T10:32:52Z")
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### Author:  [@JJMerelo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JJMerelo)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2025, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-extract-histogram-from-benchmark-results/131245/1 "2025-07-31T10:32:52Z")
How can we see the histogram results as shown in from the Julia prompt?
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### Author:  [@JJMerelo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JJMerelo)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-extract-histogram-from-benchmark-results/131245/2 "2025-07-31T11:15:29Z")
Apparently, you can use `display` which will be very close to what you get in the Julia prompt. `println` will give you the gist of it, `dump` lots of attributes.
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-extract-histogram-from-benchmark-results/131245/3 "2025-07-31T11:23:35Z")
> [@JJMerelo](#):
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> Apparently, you can use `display` which will be very close to what you get in the Julia prompt.
Yes, the REPL calls `display`. However, the output of `display` in general may depend on the environment (e.g. it may be an image in some environments), and the environment also determines which I/O device/stream the output goes to. If you specifically want the text output, and want it sent to a particular stream `io`, you can do:
```julia-auto
show(io, "text/plain", x)
```
e.g. with `io = stdout`, which is what `display` calls under the hood for the default text output situation.
See also the [summary of output functions](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/doc/src/manual/types.md#output-function-summary) which should be in the next (1.12) version of the Julia manual.
(The actual data of the histogram from `x = @benchmark foo` is in `x.times`, which is just a raw list of timings, from which you can plot a histogram using any of the plotting packages.)