On a 5 year old i5-8600, with Samsung PM871b SSD: $ time julia -e "exit" real 0m0.156s user 0m0.096s sys 0m0.100s $ time julia -e "using P

On a 5 year old i5-8600, with Samsung PM871b SSD: $ time julia -e "exit" real 0m0.156s user 0m0.096s sys 0m0.100s $ time julia -e "using Plots" real 0m1.219s user 0m0.981s sys 0m0.408s $ time julia -e "using Plots; display(plot(rand(10)))" real 0m1.581s user 0m1.160s sys 0m0.400s Not a super fair test since everything was already hot in i/o cache, but still shows how much things have improved.