# Julia slower than Matlab & Python? No

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-slower-than-matlab-python-no/33128>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Tags:** economics, tensorflow, matlab, pytorch\
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-slower-than-matlab-python-no/33128 "2020-01-08T23:57:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 55

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-slower-than-matlab-python-no/33128/55 "2020-01-10T21:16:15Z")

</div>

I think a lot of it is that multithreading is only a few months old in Julia, so not much of Base takes advantage yet. If we could get broadcasting to use threads, that would be huge.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-slower-than-matlab-python-no/33128)._