diff --git a/scripts/Modules/Util.pm b/scripts/Modules/Util.pm
index a109a45..712bf1a 100644
--- a/scripts/Modules/Util.pm
+++ b/scripts/Modules/Util.pm
@@ -181,19 +181,49 @@ sub format_number_sep {
     return $number;
 }
 
+# Run nm once and cache the result instead of running 20x per query
+my %nm_cache;
+
+sub nm_lines {
+    my ( $elffile, @nm_args ) = @_;
+
+    my $command = join ' ', 'nm', @nm_args, shell_quote($elffile);
+    return @{ $nm_cache{$command} } if exists $nm_cache{$command};
+
+    die "ELF file does not exist: $elffile\n" unless -f $elffile;
+
+    my @lines  = qx{$command 2>&1};
+    my $status = $?;
+
+    die "nm not found in PATH\n"
+      if $status == -1 || ( $status >> 8 ) == 127;
+    die "nm failed on $elffile (exit @{[ $status >> 8 ]}): @lines"
+      if $status != 0;
+    die "nm found no symbols in $elffile\n" unless @lines;
+
+    $nm_cache{$command} = \@lines;
+    return @lines;
+}
+
 sub elf_sym_addr {
     my ( $elffile, $sym ) = @_;
-    my $line = qx{nm "$elffile" 2>/dev/null | grep " $sym\$"};
-    return undef unless $line =~ /^([0-9a-f]+)/i;
-    return hex($1);
+
+    for my $line ( nm_lines($elffile) ) {
+
+        # "0010eefe T aot_invoke_native"
+        # This is case-sensitive!
+        next unless $line =~ /^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\s+\S\s+\Q$sym\E$/;
+        return hex($1);
+    }
+
+    return undef;
 }
 
 # Determine the address range of a function symbol
 sub elf_sym_range {
     my ( $elffile, $sym ) = @_;
 
-    my @lines = qx{nm -nS "$elffile" 2>/dev/null};
-    return () unless @lines;
+    my @lines = nm_lines( $elffile, '-nS' );
 
     for my $i ( 0 .. $#lines ) {
         my $line = $lines[$i];