# Make first call faster

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-first-call-faster/22845>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Tags:** ttfp\
**Created:** [April 6, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-first-call-faster/22845 "2019-04-06T18:27:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-first-call-faster/22845/2 "2019-04-06T18:31:13Z")

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Hi @KestutisMa, welcome to Julia’s forums. Yes, we’re aware that time-to-first-plot is a major problem. It is being worked on and is one of the top priorities for compiler work:

> [@Compiler work priorities](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compiler-work-priorities/17623):
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> In response to I thought I might write a little post about the rough priorities of the compiler team: Correctness finding and fixing compiler and inference bugs Multithreading [non-copying task stack switching](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13099) (done) [new PARTR parallel runtime](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22631)[locks for I/O operations](https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/1595) other thread safety Compile-time latency, aka “the time-to-first-plot problem” making compilation faster caching more things Compiler-related packages and tools [PackageCompiler](https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl) Debugger [Cxx](https://github.com/Keno/Cxx.jl) type checking/linting J…

Compiler latency has already been improved significantly in Julia 1.1 and will be much better in the upcoming Julia 1.2 release.

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