# Julia is slow questions - how to request information

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-is-slow-questions-how-to-request-information/17969>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Created:** [November 25, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-is-slow-questions-how-to-request-information/17969 "2018-11-25T07:05:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-is-slow-questions-how-to-request-information/17969/9 "2018-11-25T20:52:27Z")

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My two cents: I think we should focus on having people create a proper **minimum reproducible example**. That’s by far the most important IMO. I think [this post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757) covers it quite well already.

I actually think a long post, including all sorts of details that may or may not be relevant to the problem, can deter people from responding. And personally, I find forums that require me to submit all kinds of system details and logs before even looking at my question (when I know it’s irrelevant) quite frustrating.

As for “Julia is slow” questions, I rarely find that they’re stated in absolute terms, rather they tend to be compared to another implementation _on the same system_, in which case details such as CPU speed and RAM are often not relevant.

[Here’s an example](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/matrix-exponential-slower-in-julia-0-7-1-0/14762) of a “Julia is slow” question which I think is fully sufficient.

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