# Python big integer vs. Julia big integer arithmetic

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**Category:** Performance\
**Tags:** python\
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You’re not measuring the integer arithmetic. Most of the time is startup of julia.

To measure the integer arithmetic, use e.g. the package `BenchmarkTools`.

```julia
julia> using BenchmarkTools
julia> @btime powermod(3, 100000000000, 102)

```

I get 184 nanoseconds. How to do such a timing in python, I don’t know.

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