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

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**Created:** [August 16, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-the-julia-community-suffer-from-the-lisp-curse-whatever-it-means/102852 "2023-08-16T05:10:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-the-julia-community-suffer-from-the-lisp-curse-whatever-it-means/102852/14 "2023-10-28T15:50:09Z")

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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?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-help-reduce-package-load-latency/105294):
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> 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…

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