diff --git a/bin/eslint.js b/bin/eslint.js
index b6b14d3a2ba..061e94767f0 100755
--- a/bin/eslint.js
+++ b/bin/eslint.js
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 "use strict";
 
+// to use V8's code cache to speed up instantiation time
+require("v8-compile-cache");
+
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Helpers
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a1c3aa0d595..068b4e1858a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@
     "strip-ansi": "^5.2.0",
     "strip-json-comments": "^3.0.1",
     "table": "^5.2.3",
-    "text-table": "^0.2.0"
+    "text-table": "^0.2.0",
+    "v8-compile-cache": "^2.0.3"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/core": "^7.4.3",