# 'using Plots' takes 20 seconds or more

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-plots-takes-20-seconds-or-more/7061>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [November 14, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-plots-takes-20-seconds-or-more/7061 "2017-11-14T08:12:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Volker\_Weissmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c2a13f/32.png) [@Volker\_Weissmann](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Volker_Weissmann)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-plots-takes-20-seconds-or-more/7061/18 "2020-11-17T00:22:29Z")

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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.

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