Hi all,
I’m afraid I have to apologiz. While working on producing a MWE, I realized that my original problem is not reproducing my original complaint 
I suspect that @marius311 response is correct and I was confusing a long precompile time with a long load time (I apparently really need to work on cleaning up this code base).
I am sure the package was precompiled several times yesterday…but since I can’t reproduce it today I have to assume that I was conflating the few recompiles associated with some change I may have made and the, roughly similar in time, load without precompile.
Long story short: Thank you for your input and help, and apologies for what in retrospect was an ill placed question.