wmic run for the first time

[Unsettled]

It seems like when I run wmic on a machine for the first time, it seems
to lag -- which I'm guessing it's because it's caching all the data that
it's detecting.

It seems like this "caching" phenomenon is wmic-specific, because I know
I have queried the WMI database before with PHP via the COM interface.
But it seems the first time you run wmic it does it.

So, my question is, why?

 

[Jonathan Liu [MSFT]]

When you run WMIC for the first time the all the aliases are compiled, and
then any subesequent runs of WMIC should start immediately.