# Interesting NASA "Language-Comparison" repository

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interesting-nasa-language-comparison-repository/31356>\
**Category:** Teaching & Outreach\
**Tags:** examples\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interesting-nasa-language-comparison-repository/31356 "2019-11-21T21:02:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interesting-nasa-language-comparison-repository/31356/26 "2020-07-23T14:55:32Z")

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Has anyone figured out why Numba was so incomprehensibly fast on the Laplace example in the tests from May 2020?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/8/8/88aaa3f18255a7b5da4ec8ca37a0d9b960964fd9.png)

Also, has there been any advance on making Julia faster? We are losing almost an order of magnitude relative to C/Fortran.

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