# Roadmap for a faster time-to-first-plot?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roadmap-for-a-faster-time-to-first-plot/22956
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Tags:** ttfp
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roadmap-for-a-faster-time-to-first-plot/22956 "2019-04-09T13:22:42Z")
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### Author: ![non-Jedi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/non-jedi/32/3645_2.png) [@non-Jedi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/non-Jedi)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roadmap-for-a-faster-time-to-first-plot/22956/80 "2019-04-17T12:37:40Z")

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Specifically, the Compose native Julia SVG writer is in this file: [https://github.com/GiovineItalia/Compose.jl/blob/master/src/svg.jl](https://github.com/GiovineItalia/Compose.jl/blob/master/src/svg.jl). If you wanted to avoid whatever overhead might be added by the Compose package, you could rip that out directly and lightly modify it to work independently. That said, if the only reason for doing so is to reduce time-to-first-plot, I don’t think you’ll be too super successful. First SVG output is still slow in Gadfly.

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