# Plots.jl + GR backend: time to plot on windows always 2.3 seconds

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-gr-backend-time-to-plot-on-windows-always-2-3-seconds/74752>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plots\
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-gr-backend-time-to-plot-on-windows-always-2-3-seconds/74752 "2022-01-17T10:18:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olivier\_Merchiers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/olivier_merchiers/32/4073_2.png) [@Olivier\_Merchiers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Olivier_Merchiers)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-gr-backend-time-to-plot-on-windows-always-2-3-seconds/74752/1 "2022-01-17T10:18:52Z")

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Hello everyone,

Not sure if this is normal or not, but when I type in the repl the following:

```julia
julia> @time using Plots; @time display(plot(rand(10)))
  3.859720 seconds (8.52 M allocations: 590.593 MiB, 7.35% gc time, 12.19% compilation time)
  7.764304 seconds (17.92 M allocations: 957.783 MiB, 2.12% gc time, 68.93% compilation time)
julia> @time display(plot(rand(10)))
  2.337953 seconds (140.36 k allocations: 2.781 MiB)

```

Between the first and second time I invoke the plot() function, I close the window with the figure.  
As you can see from the timing, after closing the window and invoking again plot  
I always get a time to plot of approximately 2.3 seconds.

I’m on windows 10. This behaviour occurs on julia1.6.3 and julia1.7 and GR backend.  
For the PyPlot and Plotly backends there is no issue.

I’v never seen this behaviour on my ubuntu machine.

Thanks,  
Olivier

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-gr-backend-time-to-plot-on-windows-always-2-3-seconds/74752/2 "2022-01-17T10:29:14Z")

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Not sure what is considered “normal”, but I see roughly the same timing - if I don’t close the QtTerm window then timing is 0.01s, while with closing in between calls it’s ~2.3s so this seems to be the overhead of opening the new window?

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**Author:** ![Olivier\_Merchiers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/olivier_merchiers/32/4073_2.png) [@Olivier\_Merchiers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Olivier_Merchiers)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-gr-backend-time-to-plot-on-windows-always-2-3-seconds/74752/3 "2022-01-17T10:38:05Z")

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Ok, interesting.  
Good to know I’m not the only only one.

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**Author:** ![Olivier\_Merchiers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/olivier_merchiers/32/4073_2.png) [@Olivier\_Merchiers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Olivier_Merchiers)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-gr-backend-time-to-plot-on-windows-always-2-3-seconds/74752/4 "2022-01-21T09:11:03Z")

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Bumping this.  
Anyone else has experienced this?  
Is there a solution?

thanks again