Howto speed up a Client Application?

Hi all,

I've written application based on Client class, which opens a client connections, sends a query to a server and gets an answer from it.

1. /**
    * HTTP Client.
    *
    * Starts a network client that connects to a server on port 80,
    * sends an HTTP 1.0 GET request, and prints the results.
    *
    * Note that this code is not necessary for simple HTTP GET request:
    * Simply calling loadStrings("http://www.processing.org") would do
    * the same thing as (and more efficiently than) this example.
    * This example is for people who might want to do something more
    * complicated later.
    */
   
   
   import processing.net.*;
   // import processing.xml.*;
   
   Client c;
   String data;
   
   void setup() {
     size(200, 200);
     background(50);
     fill(200);
     c = new Client(this, "192.168.1.41", 8081); // Connect to server on port 8081
   }
   
   void draw() {
     if (c.available() > 0) { // If there's incoming data from the client...
       data = c.readString(); // ...then grab it and print it
       println(data);
     }
   }

The application runs good but there are some issues regarding to its processing speed. It takes 5 s to get an answer from the webserver, while it should be possible to get it in less than 1 s by other means.

How can I speed up this? I've been told that this comes from the JVM itself. Is it possible?

Maybe this is a too vague question, but I need to speed up the socket reading in my sketch. Is it possible to get faster answers? The fact is that the webserver answers quite fast (in less than 1 second), while this simple sketch takes longer (around 5 seconds) to get an string with an answer.