I write a variety of CLI tools for my own use in Java. On this low-end Chromebook (Samsung Chromebook 3 with a Celeron N3060 @1.60GHz) I can start the JVM, loa

I write a variety of CLI tools for my own use in Java. On this low-end Chromebook (Samsung Chromebook 3 with a Celeron N3060 @1.60GHz) I can start the JVM, load the classes for my CLI program, and print a help message, jpavel@penguin:~$ time rcr -h Usage: RCloner <config path> get|put <entry> [args] RCloner <config path> list real 0m0.316s user 0m0.208s sys 0m0.126s in less than 1/3 of a second. And this is with stock openjdk version 1.8.0_302, which doesn't include the startup time improvements of Java 10 & 12. Sure, I wouldn't write utilities meant to be piped one into another, but for standalone CLI tools, the JVM startup time isn't prohibitive at all.