[lazarus] Asserts and other stuff

[Christian Farmer]

I believe that some people have mastered the technique of "pre-loading" the
JVM and keeping it in memory, making it faster to initially load a program
from the command line.

Doesn't make Java GUI faster enough though.... and  second the "good for
serviettes and applets, but bad for GUI" idea. (Having worked for a large
Java oriented Software Company for 14 months now.