[jhh]

That's true, but it's generally like this with any Java application. The JVM starts in 0.3 seconds, but loading all your classes usually takes seconds. I don't know the arcitecture well enough, but I think it's because it looks for classes in a lot of places and unpacks JAR files etc.

[strictfp]

That of course depends on the number of deps that you have, but you have to have a _lot_ to reach into the second range.