# Julia slow with Hilbert matrices

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-slow-with-hilbert-matrices/7905>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-slow-with-hilbert-matrices/7905 "2017-12-21T22:46:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-slow-with-hilbert-matrices/7905/6 "2017-12-22T01:19:36Z")

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Big{Int,Float} are on the slower side currently:

[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/11202](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/11202)

(improvements there should be a non-breaking change as far as I know, and can be done in a point release after 1.0)

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