1.8 much slower than 1.6

Are you perhaps using GLM? I have a discussion where I found excessive usage in julia recently (I don’t know when it started, but it wasn’t there when I originally developed the script) and it looked like GLM was using too many threads for regression. I guess it uses LinearAlgebra under the covers. I fixed it by reducing the BLAS thread count.

You can see the discussion here: Huge CPU load when using GLM