# Julia programs now shown on benchmarks game website

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**Created:** [November 19, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-programs-now-shown-on-benchmarks-game-website/17722 "2018-11-19T17:44:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-programs-now-shown-on-benchmarks-game-website/17722/9 "2018-11-19T21:10:34Z")

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> [@Mason](#):
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> I’m surprised Julia is getting smoked so badly by Java in so many benchmarks.

The Java implementations of these benchmarks have been optimized to death. The Julia versions are mostly naive high-level versions. There’s a lot of room for improvement there.

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