# Why Julia can be faster than C?

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**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-julia-can-be-faster-than-c/88573 "2022-10-11T11:37:21Z")\
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Julia also uses a faster rng algorithm by default (Xoshiro256++), which will probably show up in the differences. Part of the discussion here - [Blog: Using Julia on the HPC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blog-using-julia-on-the-hpc/88039) - is about this difference when comparing to C/C++

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