# Multi-threading status?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multi-threading-status/6058>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, multithreading\
**Created:** [September 25, 2017, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multi-threading-status/6058 "2017-09-25T08:35:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![111](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/111/32/33971_2.png) [@111](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/111)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multi-threading-status/6058/1 "2017-09-25T08:35:46Z")

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Since v0.5, julia natively support multi-threading. According to the docs, this is a experimental feature and might be changed some day.

My questions are, what are the goals of multi-threading in julia? What it aim to be like? what it can and can’t do now?

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**Author:** ![samtkaplan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/samtkaplan/32/2000_2.png) [@samtkaplan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/samtkaplan)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multi-threading-status/6058/2 "2017-09-26T15:39:07Z")

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I don’t know much about this, but I noticed the following pull request that might be of interest to you:

[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22631](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22631)