# With Missings, Julia is slower than R

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/with-missings-julia-is-slower-than-r/11838>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/with-missings-julia-is-slower-than-r/11838 "2018-06-21T03:17:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/with-missings-julia-is-slower-than-r/11838/7 "2018-06-21T04:38:16Z")

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Holy cow! Yeah, it’s 4 times faster (and more than 2X faster than R) on the very latest Julia nightly:

```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.7.0-alpha.214
Commit ffc9182b3a (2018-06-20 19:45 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3920XM CPU @ 2.90GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.0 (ORCJIT, ivybridge)

julia> @btime sum(skipmissing($y))
  381.473 ms (1 allocation: 16 bytes)

```

I’m impressed!

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