Compiler latency is being actively worked on and a PR was just pushed to Plots.jl which halved the time to first plot for many users. Note that even before thi

Compiler latency is being actively worked on and a PR was just pushed to Plots.jl which halved the time to first plot for many users. Note that even before this though, it's just the compilation phase for the first plot that's expensive. Plotting itself is quite fast in julia, and if you start up julia with the command line argument `--compile=min` you'll see very very fast first plots. Obviously, this will come with a runtime performance cost though.