# Julia seems an order of magnitude slower than Python when printing to the terminal, because of issue with "sleep"

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-seems-an-order-of-magnitude-slower-than-python-when-printing-to-the-terminal-because-of-issue-with-sleep/78151
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** performance
**Created:** [March 20, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-seems-an-order-of-magnitude-slower-than-python-when-printing-to-the-terminal-because-of-issue-with-sleep/78151 "2022-03-20T04:17:43Z")
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### Author: ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-seems-an-order-of-magnitude-slower-than-python-when-printing-to-the-terminal-because-of-issue-with-sleep/78151/3 "2022-03-20T18:56:01Z")

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Some references: [JuliaLang/julia#36639](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36639), [JuliaLang/julia#43176](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/43176), [Why is printint to a terminal slow (Discourse)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-printing-to-a-terminal-slow/42987).

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