# Performance/language benchmark

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/performance-language-benchmark/115840>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [June 19, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/performance-language-benchmark/115840 "2024-06-19T03:52:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/performance-language-benchmark/115840/1 "2024-06-19T03:52:08Z")

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Here’s an old unpublished paper with a simple-to-program slightly symbolic task that might appeal to the Python vs Julia vs Magma vs SML… … benchmarkers. ./  
Simulating Cellular Automata: A Challenge for Programming  
Languages

> **[cashort.pdf](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/cashort.pdf)**
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Have fun  
RJF