This delay is due to parsing and JIT'ing a bunch of code in both Gadfly and dependencies.
There is a work-in-progress caching process you could try. See: https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/251#issuecomment-38626716 and: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/sysimg/ The PR to make that simpler and module-specific is here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8745 On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Steven Sagaert <steven.saga...@gmail.com> 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? >
