I also wouldn’t blame Ubuntu:
In [6]: %timeit a + b
554 µs ± 40.4 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)
julia> @btime $a .+ $b;
475.107 μs (2 allocations: 3.81 MiB)
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.4.1
Commit 381693d3df* (2020-04-14 17:20 UTC)
Platform Info:
OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-8.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)