$ julia -e '@time (using GR; plot(rand(20)))' 3.931433 seconds (10.38 M allocations: 521.292 MiB, 6.44% gc time) $ julia -e '@time (using Plots; plot(rand(20)))' 19.498644 seconds (57.26 M allocations: 2.844 GiB, 8.07% gc time)
$ julia --compile=min -e '@time (using GR; plot(rand(20)))' 0.375836 seconds (368.83 k allocations: 20.190 MiB, 1.65% gc time) $ julia --compile=min -e '@time (using Plots; plot(rand(20)))' 4.302867 seconds (6.41 M allocations: 371.485 MiB, 5.07% gc time)