Reopening the conversation about serverless cold start times from #1060 since this is still an issue with 2.1.

@jansabbe's test shows little improvement from 2.0 to 2.1 for cold starts:

I ran the cold-start benchmark from theburningmonk again for 2.0 and 2.1.

• Results: https://plot.ly/~jansabbe/6/csharp20-csharp21-java-python-nodejs8-golang/#/
• Code: https://github.com/jansabbe/lambda-coldstart-comparison

There seems to be an improvement in the case of 512mb, but other than that 2.0 and 2.1 are pretty similar for cold starts. Both versions are faster than Java. Still a long road ahead to compete with NodeJS, Go or Python 😉
No idea if it is possible to deploy crossgenned, ReadyToRun images to AWS. Might help for cold-starts.

Is there any hope for improvement on this in upcoming versions?