# Terminal interaction and precompile times

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/terminal-interaction-and-precompile-times/135225>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [January 23, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/terminal-interaction-and-precompile-times/135225 "2026-01-23T14:50:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mattsignorelli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mattsignorelli/32/221502_2.png) [@mattsignorelli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mattsignorelli)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/terminal-interaction-and-precompile-times/135225/3 "2026-01-23T15:58:48Z")

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Maybe this is related?

> [@Why is v1.12 "more prone to invalidations"?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-v1-12-more-prone-to-invalidations/134327):
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> When v1.12.0 was first released some time ago, my precompile script immediately stopped being effective, even though my code was unchanged. In particular, it was ineffective if IJulia.jl was also loaded. The full details are [here](https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/1192), and the maintainer very generously helped reduce the replicator down to [this](https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/1192#issuecomment-3390755056). I am wondering why this happening? And, why would the issue only appear with Julia 1.12 suddenly? At the moment I am pointing all my users to the LTS version of Julia to avoid this issue. Bu…

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