Startup of a single JVM was around 10secs but I had to start up a JVM for each operation (think of it like a JUnit test suite from the command line). If you hav

Startup of a single JVM was around 10secs but I had to start up a JVM for each operation (think of it like a JUnit test suite from the command line). If you have several of these processes the whole thing is no longer O(1) but O(n) and you begin to see the JVM startup overhead.