There's significant performance regression in boot time of Weld SE. Test uses 10000 annotated beans with default bean-discovery mode (without jandex). This issue was introduced with 2.2.0.Alpha1 version. Numbers are following:

I did commit bisect and it looks like it was introduced with this commit b5cb5e6904460d9cdbee6266ec789444c397b205. It needs further investigation.