[julia-users] Why is Gadfly so slow when plotting it's first plot?

[Steven Sagaert]

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?