When fixing RT-31306, I noticed that there are three resizes in the process of displaying HelloRectangle. The resizes are related to the way Glass builds a Window - it is created at 1x1, and in this case, the Mac window manager then resized to a "minimum" of 17x20, and then the requested size of 640x300 finally caught up.
Each of these resizes causes a visual change and slows down the start process.
Given the underlying design of Glass and interaction with JFX, this might not be reasonable to fix, but further investigation is warranted.