Package load time regressions in v1.8-beta3

Internals & Design
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For me 1.8 is also slower

  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.7.0 (2021-11-30)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia> cd("C:/v"); @time using GMT
[ Info: Precompiling GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54]
 22.048080 seconds (2.00 M allocations: 123.215 MiB, 0.22% gc time, 3.25% compilation time)

julia> tic(); plot(rand(5,2)); toc()
elapsed time: 6.8173341 seconds
6.8173341

and with 1.8

  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.8.0-beta3 (2022-03-29)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia>

julia> cd("C:/v"); @time using GMT
[ Info: Precompiling GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54]
 24.028951 seconds (999.66 k allocations: 75.502 MiB, 0.11% gc time, 2.66% compilation time)

julia> tic(); plot(rand(5,2)); toc()
elapsed time: 9.5560409 seconds
9.5560409
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