Makie.lines(rand(5)); is about 5 times slower after Fezzik.brute_build_julia() than PackageCompiler.compile_incremental(:Makie, :AbstractPlotting). In contrast, s = Scene() is same fast.
Fezzik uses PackageCompiler API. Fezzik generates precompiles based on what user enters on REPL, while PackageCompiler generates precompiles using packages runtests.jl. I also tried provide Fezzik trace file with precompiles generated by julia --compile=all -O0 -g0 --trace-compile=traces.jl myscript.jl, but results were the same.
We are also discussing this here: https://github.com/TsurHerman/Fezzik/issues/4
I developed simple script that uses Makie, Blink and Interact and its startup time is still ~20 s with precompiled sysimage.
Why could be that?
Maybe some functions were not precompiled by just calling Makie.lines(rand(5))? But Makie’s runtests.jl is calling MakieGallery examples, which just contains same functions?