# Status of Pkg speed improvements outside US in v1.5

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-pkg-speed-improvements-outside-us-in-v1-5/46395>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [September 10, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-pkg-speed-improvements-outside-us-in-v1-5/46395 "2020-09-10T15:50:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-pkg-speed-improvements-outside-us-in-v1-5/46395/6 "2020-09-10T18:43:51Z")

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I measured fresh install on Windows 10, WSL 1 and 2.  
All of these measurements with the antivirus software running.

> [@Status of Pkg speed improvements outside US in v1.5](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-pkg-speed-improvements-outside-us-in-v1-5/46395/3):
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> Completely remove .julia. Then, for one particular package (Elfel.jl), running activate and instantiate, I get these measurements: Windows 10 126 s WSL 1 131 s WSL 2 13 s

As you can see, WSL 2 is an order of magnitude faster. That would seem to indicate  
access to disk as the limiting factor. According to the info I found on the web, WSL 2 uses “native Linux filesystems”.

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