Yes, I often write small command-line tools and that's what I found. Profiling seemed to indicate that doing anything at all in Java, such as reading a config f

Yes, I often write small command-line tools and that's what I found. Profiling seemed to indicate that doing anything at all in Java, such as reading a config file, is fast the second time but super slow the first time. You can test my assertion simply by writing a "hello world" in Python and Java.