# How to cut down compile time when inference is not the problem?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cut-down-compile-time-when-inference-is-not-the-problem/59077>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Created:** [April 12, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cut-down-compile-time-when-inference-is-not-the-problem/59077 "2021-04-12T08:18:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![goerch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/goerch/32/29122_2.png) [@goerch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/goerch)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-cut-down-compile-time-when-inference-is-not-the-problem/59077/4 "2021-11-26T07:59:13Z")

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Just testing my patched version of `Gridap.jl` from [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extremely-high-first-call-latency-julia-1-6-versus-1-5-with-multiphysics-pde-solver/71692/22) yields

```julia
Julia Version 1.5.4
Commit 69fcb5745b (2021-03-11 19:13 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-9.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 6
 80.101978 seconds (159.74 M allocations: 7.881 GiB, 3.13% gc time)
SingleFieldFEFunction():
 num_cells: 162
 DomainStyle: ReferenceDomain()
 Triangulation: BodyFittedTriangulation()
 Triangulation id: 17548864358240605896

```

and

```julia
Julia Version 1.7.0-rc3
Commit 3348de4ea6 (2021-11-15 08:22 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-12.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 6
 81.666169 seconds (183.65 M allocations: 10.239 GiB, 3.45% gc time, 99.60% compilation time)
SingleFieldFEFunction():
 num_cells: 162
 DomainStyle: ReferenceDomain()
 Triangulation: BodyFittedTriangulation()
 Triangulation id: 4899376070316862521

```

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