# How to Make Precompiling Faster?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-precompiling-faster/101865
**Category:** General Usage
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**Created:** [July 21, 2023, 4:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-precompiling-faster/101865 "2023-07-21T04:52:23Z")
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#### Post date: [July 21, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-precompiling-faster/101865/5 "2023-07-21T09:29:42Z")

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I timed @time Pkg.add(“InteractiveDynamics”) this morning. Agree with Tim Holy on the time. I can repeat and give exact time.  
This is on a laptop running Fedora.  
Are you very constrained in resources on your machine? Maybe low on rAM and swapping is happening?

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