# Does Debian's BenchmarkGames show representative performance?

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**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-debians-benchmarkgames-show-representative-performance/80018 "2022-04-25T08:48:46Z")\
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If TTFX is very inconvenient to you, while developing, you can try it:

> [@A Julia DataAnalysis Sysimage from PackageCompiler It's so easy you should do it too!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-julia-dataanalysis-sysimage-from-packagecompiler-its-so-easy-you-should-do-it-too/68127):
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> If you want to use Julia for the kind of thing where you might fire up R and read a couple CSV files into some DataFrames, maybe grab some data from a SQLite file, manipulate the data a little, make a few plots, and be done… Then it’d be nice to have a quick-load sysimage so you don’t have too much “time to first plot”. It turns out that PackageCompiler has gotten to the point where this is fairly trivial. Here are two scripts I’m using to build my own sysimage that can do all these things, incl…

But, IMHO, it is more convenient to deal with that using a Revise-based worflow. I would not recommend start building system images to everyone.

At the end you could deliver a binary for _users_ of your package, without the TTFX at all (and that could be used for benchmarking in some contexts). But I personally think that is a necessity that first needs to be demonstrated in the specific domain/application in question.

Concerning the original question of the post, my opinion is that “performance” and " development responsiveness" are two different things. Of course there is a TTFX in Julia that you may or may not include in the benchmark. Yet, I would not call that a measure of “performance”, at least in my field, things that take a few seconds to run are not important, and we care about performance for things that take hours and days to run, for which TTFX and compilation are irrelevant.

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