Did you test that 1.5 second claim yourself? I literally just wrote a HelloWorld...

jhh · on Feb 1, 2017

I agree that my claim is false. I kind of wrote that from the top of my head.

In any case, the point that I wanted to make in the parent comment was that the JVM startup time itself was basically fine.

I just checked on my Macbook and a HelloWorld class gives me .13 secs real.

monodeldiablo · on Feb 2, 2017

To be fair, 0.2 seconds is still ludicrously long. I can literally say the output of the program in less time than the runtime can.