It's changed a lot for the better over the last few releases to the point where it doesn't matter anymore. If it's still a concern, you can do what I did a whi

It's changed a lot for the better over the last few releases to the point where it doesn't matter anymore. If it's still a concern, you can do what I did a while back and just write the app on top of Node.js. Then the startup time is more or less gone altogether.