If you are going to use Julia in one of the absolute worst workflows for how it is designed, you shouldn’t be surprised it doesn’t work well... That said, have

If you are going to use Julia in one of the absolute worst workflows for how it is designed, you shouldn’t be surprised it doesn’t work well... That said, have you tried using PackageCompiler to add your needed libraries to the system image? This seems to show a factor of 100 speed up for the time to first plot: https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/examples/plots/ https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/examples/...