I think it's purposely slow, just to annoy Julia developers into implementing a system that saves compiles from previous sessions 😀
On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 12:00:28 AM UTC+11, Steven Sagaert wrote: > > Hi, > I use Gadfly to create simple barplots & save them as SVG. Since this is > for usage in a web page, I've only installed Gadfly, not extra backends. > Now when doing the first plot it is incredibly slow but much better on > subsequent plots. Why is that? Is there anything that can be done to speed > things up? >