Implementing recipes on a per package basis?

[kristoffer.carlsson]

@ChrisRackauckas

The using time in Plots.jl isn’t a major factor anyways in comparison to the timing on plot and display .

Loading Plots takes 13 seconds for me. Seems non-negligble.

@ChrisRackauckas

GR has been hardcoded to load for about 2 years now, with other choices using a Requires mechanism so this shouldn’t effect the default usage. But that only made a dent in the compile times. The issues in Plots.jl are much different than this.

It is relevant because in the issue I linked none of the Requires enabled packages are loaded but Requires still causes extra compile time (you need to compile all the Requires expressions).

@ChrisRackauckas

Because the GR backend is not lazy and first time to plot with GR still mostly exists (though it’s a lot smaller than before), “might very well” is not a strong enough statement.

As already explained, Requires causes extra load time anyway. Also, one of the main “features” of Plots is presumably the fact that you can use different backends and these use cases are also important?