As @James Fredley stated, Java 25 has the best performance. other than some inconvenient messages, it works great.

What are the messages you see. I can try to track down if any are Groovy related.

WARNING: A terminally deprecated method in sun.misc.Unsafe has been called WARNING: sun.misc.Unsafe::arrayBaseOffset has been called by com.google.protobuf.UnsafeUtil$MemoryAccessor (file/C/Users/james/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java/3.21.12/5589e79a33cb6509f7e681d7cf4fc59d47c51c71/protobuf-java-3.21.12.jar) WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of class com.google.protobuf.UnsafeUtil$MemoryAccessor WARNING: sun.misc.Unsafe::arrayBaseOffset will be removed in a future release That is the last one I am seeing, coming from asset-pipeline dependencies, I believe

(which I think is fixed in the 5.1.x line)