title: Is there a way to reduce startup time of a console Java application?
body: <p>I noticed that the startup time of a minimal console application in Java is slightly more than 100 ms on my machine compared to 1 ms of an equivalent C application. Although it is not a problem in most cases I would like to find out if there is a way to reduce this time because I need to write an application that will be executed many times (say in a loop within a bash script).</p>