Slow Terminal Commands

Hi,
I have found lately that many of my terminal commands are slow to execute . For example the command java is very slow but once I have run it once it runs very fast after that.
I'm not talking about how long it takes to compile but how long it takes to actually run the command in the first place.
Does anybody have a solution?

Sorry, I wasn't more specific. My main problem is with Javac actually, the java compiler. I rebooted my MacBook and ran the command
*time javac testfile.java*
*And the output was:*
real 0m4.289s
user 0m0.608s
sys 0m0.276s
*and then I ran it again and the output was:*
real 0m0.449s
user 0m0.327s
sys 0m0.074s
It just seems to be slow the first time around and then fast after that. It is annoying since it never used to happen before

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