Does anyone here have experience with excluding Perl from virus scanning at start up?

I'm experiencing 1-2 seconds lag when starting a Perl process, and I don't think it's normal.

(Tho haven't benchmarked it yet)

It's a work laptop, so I want to play safe and be sure not to compromise any company assets by excluding Perl.

I haven't yet looked into it but my understanding is that I have to whitelist perl.exe somewhere.

Hence it's not possible to distinguish between different .pl files, as such I can treat my own scripts as trusted?