diff --git a/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/script/ScriptDefTest.java b/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/script/ScriptDefTest.java
index 4ebf3d697..2a3953520 100644
--- a/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/script/ScriptDefTest.java
+++ b/src/tests/junit/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/script/ScriptDefTest.java
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ public class ScriptDefTest {
         // skip execution since this compilation timing based test consistently fails starting Java 15 (where we use
         // Graal libraries for Javascript engine)
         Assume.assumeTrue("Skipping test execution since Java version is greater than Java 14", atMostJava14.eval());
+
+        // warm everything up:
+        buildRule.executeTarget("useNotCompiled");
+
         final long duration;
         {
             long start = System.nanoTime();