Is this issue still actively worked on?
@time using Plots
11.354988 seconds (18.48 M allocations: 1.024 GiB, 3.34% gc time)
$ time julia -e “using Plots”
real 0m11,482s
user 0m10,651s
sys 0m0,373s
$ time python -c “import matplotlib”
real 0m0,868s
user 0m0,411s
sys 0m0,264s
$ time gnuplot -e “”
real 0m0,026s
user 0m0,023s
sys 0m0,003s
I thought Julia wanted to rival C’s speed, not be slower than python.