# Starting GLMakie takes very long

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/starting-glmakie-takes-very-long/64106>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/starting-glmakie-takes-very-long/64106 "2021-07-05T20:59:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/starting-glmakie-takes-very-long/64106/9 "2021-07-06T07:45:56Z")

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Hi,

> [@peteole](#):
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> But I am afraid this really is a huge problem to the Julia language. It really has great and elegant functionality, but nowadays nobody wants to wait a minute to view a graph of sin(x).

Note that this strongly depends on what you are doing and on the workflow. I use a lot Makie (without specific Image) and It is not a major issue… for me.

> [@aramirezreyes](#):
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> 3.- What most people do is try to keep your sessions open for a long time to try and mitigate the recompilation of all packages.

Exactly : most of the time, I work in the same Julia session for hours (thanks to Revise.jl) and, this first time to plot is not more problematic (for me) than waiting for a Matlab session to start ([Video : Julia setup for beginner](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/video-julia-setup-for-beginner/56559)).

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