# Why is Julia's graphics system so slow?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-julias-graphics-system-so-slow/68750>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Tags:** plotting, ttfp\
**Created:** [September 25, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-julias-graphics-system-so-slow/68750 "2021-09-25T13:09:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![evan-wehi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/evan-wehi/32/32692_2.png) [@evan-wehi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/evan-wehi)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-julias-graphics-system-so-slow/68750/32 "2022-03-16T21:02:57Z")

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The Gadfly backends are for writing files. I’m trying to render in VSCode.

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