Ok that puts some bounds on it; we are talking 1&#x2F;10ths of seconds as significant? Or 1&#x2F;2 seconds? There is work on this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaLang&#x2F;IJulia.jl&#x2F;issues&#x2F;346" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaLang&#x2F;IJulia.jl&#x2F;issues&#x2F;346</a>) and later versions of Julia 0.4 feel pretty snappy to me compared to R (which is the other tool I generally use nowadays)