diff --git a/bin/stylelint.js b/bin/stylelint.js
index 9d26798654..f38a7c7883 100755
--- a/bin/stylelint.js
+++ b/bin/stylelint.js
@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@
 
 "use strict";
 
+// to use V8's code cache to speed up instantiation time
+require("v8-compile-cache");
+
 require("../lib/cli")(process.argv.slice(2));
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ce4a0c8fe4..a328134680 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@
     "style-search": "^0.1.0",
     "sugarss": "^2.0.0",
     "svg-tags": "^1.0.0",
-    "table": "^5.2.3"
+    "table": "^5.2.3",
+    "v8-compile-cache": "^2.1.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "benchmark": "^2.1.4",