# Why is scheduling this future from a thread slower than scheduling it from the main thread?

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**Category:** Questions & Answers\
**Tags:** thread, futures\
**Created:** [September 15, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/why-is-scheduling-this-future-from-a-thread-slower-than-scheduling-it-from-the-main-thread/3940 "2025-09-15T22:04:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![jrkalyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jrkalyan](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jrkalyan)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/why-is-scheduling-this-future-from-a-thread-slower-than-scheduling-it-from-the-main-thread/3940/3 "2025-09-16T17:37:19Z")

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That makes sense, thank you! Parallel threads would be perfect. I didn't realize that was being worked on so I'll check them out.

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