Obviously, we all know this question has been asked numerous times. I am using latest Julia 1.8, and in my current research I am using Julia Makie/AlgebraOfGraphics for most of the analytics and plotting, and I am encountering a lot of usability issues due to the TTFP problem. I know Julia has done…

Build a sysimage if you have to restart a lot: [image] Building a PC optimized for "time to first plot" Performance I am not sure whether I am interpreting your question correctly, but I think the answer is yes. Here is an example with Makie: With a sysimage that took ju…

I don’t know if precompile is actually working. It might be… because I don’t know if 2-3 minutes loading is normal for precompiled packages. In any case, it is a lot of time. Sysimage is quite complicated, and I would like to avoid it when I don’t know what packages I need (during exploration, for …

[image] rongcuid: Sysimage is quite complicated, and I would like to avoid it when I don’t know what packages I need (during exploration, for instance) It is typically quite trivial in VS Code (two clicks), see Compiling Sysimages · Julia in VS Code . The second half of your sentence still sta…

I have a fairly different experience even without a sysimage, so it would be important to check some basics. First, do you consistently use a Project.toml file? A typical workflow in julia would be to start a project in some preferred folder (e.g. cd my_project; julia --project=. where . means “c…

I do not use projects, but have a bunch of loose scripts running under global environment. The import of CairoMakie alone does take 10-30 secs, but since I use quite a few other packages, it is slower. The time you report is not that far from my experience. I just did a sysimage. It takes about 6mi…

I do suspect you will have much better experience using projects. That is true not just for Julia, but for Python, Rust, and R and many other languages. The reasons span from organization/logistics/reproducibility/sharing/logistics to “simply fewer things move around when you update a minor library”…

Projects are like venv? I thought I have to create a package to use it

Projects are like venv (but built in). You don’t need to crate a package. Just a Project.toml and a Manifest.toml.

If you update any of the many many indirect dependencies of Makie through adding or updating a different package that shares a dependency, at the next time you load Makie it will precompile again. The more packages interact with each other this way, the more this happens. So keeping projects small a…

Very slow time to first plot, 2022

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Oscar_Smith October 19, 2022, 3:03pm 3

I don’t think this is the right answer. What OP is describing really shouldn’t be happening even without a sysimage. If I’m reading it right, Op is saying that precompilation isn’t being saved for some reason.

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Very slow time to first plot, 2022

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