Thanks for the info. I suspected it might have something to do with JIT compilation.
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 2:16:54 PM UTC+1, Isaiah wrote: > > 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....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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? >> > >
