Does the Julia community suffer from the “Lisp curse” (whatever it means)?

[mkitti]

It really should not take 30 seconds to load package with precompilation, and yet we see instances such as this:

How to help reduce package load latency?

In an effort to reduce package load latency for a slow loading package,I successfully added some precompilation (via @compile_workload) and it had the desired effect. However, some dependencies are very slow as well, and I would like to learn how to help with that. The output of @time_imports using ParameterEstimation includes the following 12852.5 ms Polymake 24.84% compilation time (89% recompilation) 5354.2 ms GAP 17.17% compilation time (83% recompilation) 5574.2 ms Hecke 41.18…