$ time (for i in `seq 1 100`; do perl -MJSON -e1; done) real 0m2.635s user 0m1.930s sys 0m0.510s $ time (for i in `seq 1 100`; do perl -MJSON -MLWP::UserAgent -e1; done) real 0m7.111s user 0m6.060s sys 0m0.740s