New Julia versions, higher Pluto loading times

Yes, it is unfortunate to see that this tendency shows no sign to revert. On the contrary. Compile times on nightly jumped again.

julia> VERSION
v"1.10.10"

julia> using GMT
Precompiling GMT finished.
  1 dependency successfully precompiled in 53 seconds. 80 already precompiled.
julia> VERSION
v"1.12.4"

julia> using GMT
Precompiling GMT finished.
  1 dependency successfully precompiled in 71 seconds. 106 already precompiled.
julia> VERSION
v"1.13.0-beta1"

julia> using GMT
[ Info: Precompiling GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54]
Precompiling GMT finished.
  1 dependency successfully precompiled in 76 seconds. 105 already precompiled.
julia> VERSION
v"1.14.0-DEV.1549"

julia> using GMT
[ Info: Precompiling GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54]
Precompiling GMT finished.
  1 dependency successfully precompiled in 100 seconds. 105 already precompiled.

And when seeing the time it takes to run the tests, the situation is much worse (but that goes back to version 1.11).

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