# Julia gets mentioned in an article about FORTRAN

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**Created:** [May 5, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-gets-mentioned-in-an-article-about-fortran/60605 "2021-05-05T20:52:36Z")\
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The last time I looked at it was

> [@Multithreaded broadcast?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multithreaded-broadcast/26786/5):
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> FWIW, I just tested the overhead of C/OpenMP threading; for a simple sum the crossover point appears to be at N=3\_000, which would seems to suggest that the overhead in julia is ~20x larger than in OpenMP.

but it would be awesome to have more up to date benchmarks.

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