I was under the impression (probably miss guided) that Perl compiled scripts and stored the compiled code somewhere/somehow. If the modification time of the script hadn't changed it would subsequently not need to recompile every time the script was run.

I see some references to compiled Perl scripts but this primarily appears to be around avoiding having to rely on Perl on destination systems.

Are there ways of getting my code to execute faster?

perl -d:DProf ./test.pl 198.19.28.102 user password -d; dprofpp;
{
        "data": [
                { "{#BGPPEER}": "African Bank - HO - Neotel" },
                { "{#BGPPEER}": "African Bank - HO - Teraco" },
                { "{#BGPPEER}": "African Bank - Neotel - Midrand" },
                { "{#BGPPEER}": "Liquid Telecoms - A" },
                { "{#BGPPEER}": "Liquid Telecoms - B" }
        ]
}
Total Elapsed Time = 0.354916 Seconds
  User+System Time = 0.304916 Seconds
Exclusive Times
%Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c  Name
 13.1   0.040  0.040    138   0.0003 0.0003  Class::MOP::Method::Gener
+ated::_eval_closure
 9.84   0.030  0.026     23   0.0013 0.0011  Moose::Util::TypeConstrai
+nts::BEGIN
 6.56   0.020  0.020      4   0.0050 0.0050  B::Hooks::EndOfScope::BEG
+IN
 6.56   0.020  0.038     15   0.0013 0.0026  Class::MOP::BEGIN
 6.56   0.020  0.213     24   0.0008 0.0089  Moose::BEGIN
 6.56   0.020  0.019    176   0.0001 0.0001  Class::MOP::Mixin::HasAtt
+ributes::has_attribute
 6.23   0.019  0.018    258   0.0001 0.0001  Class::MOP::Class::Immuta
+ble::Class::MOP::Class::get_meta_instance
 6.23   0.019  0.019   1106   0.0000 0.0000  Class::MOP::get_metaclass
+_by_name
 6.23   0.019  0.019   1062   0.0000 0.0000  Class::MOP::Package::_pac
+kage_stash
 5.90   0.018  0.018   1712   0.0000 0.0000  Package::Stash::PP::_deco
+nstruct_variable_name
 5.25   0.016  0.031   1168   0.0000 0.0000  Package::Stash::PP::get_s
+ymbol
 3.28   0.010  0.010      1   0.0100 0.0100  Net::SSLeay::load_error_s
+trings
 3.28   0.010  0.010      1   0.0100 0.0100  Params::Util::bootstrap
 3.28   0.010  0.010      6   0.0017 0.0016  IO::Socket::BEGIN
 3.28   0.010  0.010     14   0.0007 0.0007  Package::Stash::PP::BEGIN
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