# GLMakie performance and Julia 1.6

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-performance-and-julia-1-6/54854>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [February 8, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-performance-and-julia-1-6/54854 "2021-02-08T17:08:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![gdkrmr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gdkrmr/32/2791_2.png) [@gdkrmr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gdkrmr)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-performance-and-julia-1-6/54854/1 "2021-02-08T17:08:21Z")

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I have to make hundreds of plots and was using GLMakie and the png backend, I was quite disappointed with the Performance, 800 plots took ~1.5h and GLMakie cannot be used with threads. This was on the 1.6 release branch.

I just updated to Julia 1.6-rc1 and all of a sudden I can do the 800 plots in 1-2minutes. What happened here? As far as I can tell nothing else on my system changed, I didn’t even update the installed Julia packages.