Currently, Tenet takes about 11s to load in my laptop (Apple M1 Pro). Julia 1.9 should provide some improvements on native code caching. Meanwhile, we could lazily load packages to avoid unnecessary load overhead.
An analysis on the package load time using InteractiveUtils.@time_imports (see below) shows that the Makie package (used for visualization of tensor networks) takes around half of the time.
Since visualization is not critical and Makie is a popular package that people will most probably load in their sessions, we could use Requires.jl for lazily loading Makie-dependent code. Furthermore, Package Extensions should land on Julia 1.9 so Requires would be a dependency just for Julia 1.8.
julia> using InteractiveUtils
julia> @time_imports using Tenet
16.4 ms MacroTools
1.2 ms SimpleTraits
2.0 ms StaticArraysCore
396.0 ms StaticArrays
3.1 ms ArnoldiMethod
0.5 ms Compat
0.4 ms Inflate
56.2 ms DataStructures
31.4 ms Graphs
1.2 ms Contour
0.6 ms LaTeXStrings
13.1 ms AbstractTrees
35.0 ms SIMD
0.7 ms ScanByte
1.3 ms TranscodingStreams
4.3 ms Automa
19.5 ms Preferences
0.3 ms JLLWrappers
158.5 ms Bzip2_jll 99.58% compilation time (100% recompilation)
0.8 ms Zlib_jll
0.5 ms FreeType2_jll
2.9 ms CEnum
3.9 ms FreeType
60.6 ms FixedPointNumbers
0.1 ms Reexport
55.6 ms ColorTypes 6.46% compilation time
220.6 ms Colors
4.0 ms IrrationalConstants
75.4 ms ChainRulesCore
2.4 ms DocStringExtensions 54.33% compilation time
9.9 ms ChangesOfVariables
1.2 ms InverseFunctions
0.5 ms LogExpFunctions
0.8 ms OpenLibm_jll
6.3 ms CompilerSupportLibraries_jll
0.5 ms OpenSpecFun_jll
12.1 ms SpecialFunctions
0.2 ms TensorCore
97.2 ms ColorVectorSpace 3.21% compilation time
0.2 ms DataValueInterfaces
1.2 ms DataAPI
0.1 ms IteratorInterfaceExtensions
0.1 ms TableTraits
12.8 ms Tables
0.3 ms Adapt
2.6 ms GPUArraysCore
19.1 ms StructArrays
21.9 ms IterTools
2.1 ms Extents
0.8 ms GeoInterface
1.4 ms EarCut_jll
419.7 ms GeometryBasics
68.7 ms FreeTypeAbstraction 11.94% compilation time
0.9 ms UnicodeFun
0.2 ms Scratch
0.3 ms RelocatableFolders
84.4 ms MathTeXEngine
1.2 ms FriBidi_jll
1.0 ms Libiconv_jll
0.8 ms Libffi_jll
0.8 ms XML2_jll
1.1 ms Gettext_jll
0.7 ms PCRE2_jll
4.4 ms Glib_jll
0.5 ms Pixman_jll
0.3 ms libpng_jll
0.1 ms Libuuid_jll
0.3 ms Expat_jll
2.9 ms Fontconfig_jll 69.27% compilation time
0.5 ms LZO_jll
1.0 ms Cairo_jll
0.3 ms Graphite2_jll
0.7 ms HarfBuzz_jll
0.6 ms libass_jll
0.3 ms libfdk_aac_jll
0.5 ms LAME_jll
0.6 ms Ogg_jll
0.6 ms libvorbis_jll
0.5 ms libaom_jll
0.5 ms x264_jll
0.6 ms x265_jll
1.0 ms OpenSSL_jll
0.3 ms Opus_jll
4.8 ms FFMPEG_jll
0.2 ms FFMPEG
11.5 ms Observables
0.1 ms SnoopPrecompile
13.6 ms ColorSchemes
391.7 ms PlotUtils
48.7 ms Parsers 8.67% compilation time
19.0 ms JSON
0.2 ms ColorBrewer
3.5 ms Packing
0.1 ms SignedDistanceFields
7.6 ms MakieCore
68.2 ms OffsetArrays
0.5 ms SortingAlgorithms
7.1 ms Missings
0.3 ms StatsAPI
17.8 ms StatsBase
17.5 ms PDMats
0.6 ms Rmath_jll
45.7 ms Rmath 84.48% compilation time
0.2 ms NaNMath
1.8 ms Calculus
49.0 ms DualNumbers
0.8 ms HypergeometricFunctions
4.3 ms StatsFuns
2.4 ms QuadGK
143.5 ms FillArrays
1.1 ms DensityInterface
180.1 ms Distributions
6.6 ms WoodburyMatrices
0.3 ms Requires
215.5 ms Ratios 93.28% compilation time (50% recompilation)
0.2 ms AxisAlgorithms
35.5 ms Interpolations 13.22% compilation time (100% recompilation)
8.5 ms AbstractFFTs
0.9 ms FFTW_jll
392.9 ms FFTW 3.15% compilation time
2.0 ms KernelDensity
0.5 ms isoband_jll
0.1 ms Isoband
0.1 ms PolygonOps
105.1 ms GridLayoutBase
658.2 ms FileIO 0.64% compilation time (100% recompilation)
2.7 ms IndirectArrays
4.4 ms LazyModules 68.02% compilation time
0.4 ms ImageIO
1.7 ms TriplotBase
1.1 ms Qhull_jll
0.7 ms QhullMiniWrapper_jll
0.1 ms MiniQhull
25.1 ms IntervalSets
0.2 ms Showoff
0.5 ms Formatting
0.3 ms Match
3.5 ms Animations
5660.4 ms Makie 0.17% compilation time
21.7 ms NetworkLayout 60.69% compilation time (44% recompilation)
164.2 ms GraphMakie
5.8 ms Combinatorics
142.3 ms OptimizedEinsum
1.0 ms CovarianceEstimation
71.8 ms NamedDims 5.64% compilation time (100% recompilation)
1.5 ms TupleTools
0.2 ms BatchedRoutines
0.2 ms BetterExp
0.3 ms Suppressor
14.1 ms OMEinsumContractionOrders 30.41% compilation time (100% recompilation)
14.5 ms OMEinsum 30.14% compilation time (100% recompilation)
21.2 ms SimpleWeightedGraphs
5.9 ms Pango_jll
2.4 ms Graphics
3.0 ms Cairo
3.7 ms Media 54.67% compilation time
260.5 ms Juno
2.8 ms JpegTurbo_jll
1.6 ms LERC_jll
1.6 ms Zstd_jll
1.3 ms Libtiff_jll
1.5 ms gdk_pixbuf_jll
4.9 ms Librsvg_jll
3.1 ms Rsvg 72.57% compilation time
510.6 ms Luxor 35.01% compilation time (32% recompilation)
11.2 ms Quac
190.8 ms Tenet
Currently, Tenet takes about 11s to load in my laptop (Apple M1 Pro). Julia 1.9 should provide some improvements on native code caching. Meanwhile, we could lazily load packages to avoid unnecessary load overhead.
An analysis on the package load time using
InteractiveUtils.@time_imports(see below) shows that the Makie package (used for visualization of tensor networks) takes around half of the time.Since visualization is not critical and Makie is a popular package that people will most probably load in their sessions, we could use Requires.jl for lazily loading Makie-dependent code. Furthermore, Package Extensions should land on Julia 1.9 so Requires would be a dependency just for Julia 1.8.