diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4de0cd8..e0f1c91 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -113,6 +113,30 @@ You can specify the path and name where the report will be saved using the `repo
 
 To deactivate report creation, set `noreport` to `true`.
 
+### `javaBin` property
+
+The default JVM on your system will be used to run the closure compiler. For most users, this will be a 64-bit JVM. The closure compiler is much faster when run with a 32bit JVM and in client mode. You can read more about this at the [closure compiler FAQ](https://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/wiki/FAQ).
+
+Rather than deal with the hassle of trying to run multiple versions of the JVM it is simpler to download it to a directory and without modifying any environment variables, call the java binary using an absolute path.
+
+You can download a 32bit version of java from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. As an example, download the Java SE 8 JDK, extract the contents and move the directory to the desired location such as `/opt` in a linux environment. You will end up with a path such as `/opt/jdk1.8.0_20`.
+
+You can then use the javaBin property to specify a custom java binary command such as:
+
+```javascript
+grunt.initConfig({
+  'closure-compiler': {
+    frontend: {
+      javaBin: '/opt/jdk1.8.0_20/bin/java -client -d32',
+      js: 'static/src/frontend.js',
+      jsOutputFile: 'static/js/frontend.min.js',
+    }
+  }
+})
+```
+
+It is not unusual to gain an order of magnitude gain in performance when compiling many files in this way.
+
 ### `js` property
 
 This task is a [multi task](https://github.com/cowboy/grunt/blob/master/docs/types_of_tasks.md), you can specify several targets. The task can minify many scripts at a time.
diff --git a/tasks/closure-compiler.js b/tasks/closure-compiler.js
index 17bc38e..b91e790 100644
--- a/tasks/closure-compiler.js
+++ b/tasks/closure-compiler.js
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
       return false;
     }
 
-    var command = 'java -jar "' + closurePath + '/build/compiler.jar"';
+    var javaBin = data.javaBin || 'java';
+    var command = javaBin + ' -jar "' + closurePath + '/build/compiler.jar"';
 
     data.cwd = data.cwd || './';