JVM start-up, JIT, OSR etc take very little time relative to most of the workloads shown on the benchmarks game. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.h

JVM start-up, JIT, OSR etc take very little time relative to most of the workloads shown on the benchmarks game. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#java http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#java The notable exception (not included in summary measurements) is the few tenths of a second run-time for meteor-contest. Of that few tenths of a second: JVM startup takes 95%, JIT and OSR another 4.9%. Whatever kind-of app you have, you should take general statements about program performance with a grain of salt, there's even a page for that -- http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.html http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...