Some package load times affected drastically by current working directory #36911
Description
I noticed that if I change directory to a slow network share, some package load times become up to 45x longer.
Loading Distributions.jl is reasonably fast
julia> @time using Distributions
1.895814 seconds (2.16 M allocations: 128.496 MiB, 0.69% gc time)
but if i change directory to a relatively slow network share, loading becomes much slower
julia> cd(raw"\\path\to\slowish\network\share")
julia> @time using Distributions
10.665480 seconds (2.16 M allocations: 128.435 MiB, 0.20% gc time)
My startup.jl was empty (therefore not an issue with Revise.jl), and the network share folder is empty as well.
This is on Windows 10, Julia v1.5.0, but v1.4.1 shows similar behavior.
Not only Distributions.jl, but
module debug
using LibSpatialIndex
end
gives
julia> cd(raw"\\path\to\slowish\network\share")
julia> @time using debug
11.088778 seconds (363.64 k allocations: 20.985 MiB, 0.10% gc time)
...
5.463853 seconds (363.25 k allocations: 20.221 MiB)
...
15.565964 seconds (363.25 k allocations: 20.221 MiB)
with the three repeats with restarted Julia. The slowest one was with the highest network load, but
julia> cd(raw"\\path\to\slowish\network\share")
julia> @time using LibSpatialIndex
0.226846 seconds (359.37 k allocations: 20.711 MiB, 4.33% gc time)