Building a PC optimized for "time to first plot"

General Usage Performance
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I am not sure whether I am interpreting your question correctly, but I think the answer is yes. Here is an example with Makie:

With a sysimage that took just a couple of clicks to prepare in vscode:

julia> @time @eval using CairoMakie
  0.008680 seconds (14.54 k allocations: 927.412 KiB)

julia> @time plot([1,2,3])
  2.082096 seconds (1.94 M allocations: 130.274 MiB, 2.15% gc time, 37.41% compilation time)

Without a custom sysimage:

julia> @time @eval using CairoMakie
 13.082514 seconds (17.49 M allocations: 1.247 GiB, 4.57% gc time, 3.01% compilation time: <1% of which was recompilation)

# don't even bother actually making the first plot, it takes more than 30 seconds
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