> If you run a simple java app without dependencies and only displaying "Hello world" it will run in about 1s on modern hardware. > time for x in $(seq 1 100);

> If you run a simple java app without dependencies and only displaying "Hello world" it will run in about 1s on modern hardware. > time for x in $(seq 1 100); do ./helloworld.py ; done real 0m1.240s user 0m0.902s sys 0m0.343s That's reasonably fast. Java for comparison: > time for x in $(seq 1 100); do java Hw; done real 0m4.952s user 0m4.051s sys 0m1.071s And I had to compile java first. Still, I expected worse from java TBH.