Very interesting reading. Some of my colleagues work with Vagrant or just-plain-old VMs for development and I have heard quite a bit of grousing about performa

Very interesting reading. Some of my colleagues work with Vagrant or just-plain-old VMs for development and I have heard quite a bit of grousing about performance. It's nice to have some actual data. For whatever reason, the matter that I found most fascinating is the application start-up time. I chiefly work with Java web applications deployed on Resin. Some ten-odd years ago, when I first selected Resin as a web container, I did so because of its relatively quick start-up time. It's around 3 seconds to boot a modest application on modern hardware. Since then, I had lost sight of the importance of application start-up time. Resin and many competing but similar platforms (e.g., Play) support dynamic reloading during development, so a full container restart is fairly uncommon. But your article makes me wonder if it would be of interest for us to include container and application start-up time in our framework benchmarks project. I think that's something we could fairly easily measure. Thanks again for putting this together!