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in thread slow startup for some common modules? (autodie, Pod::Usage, Getopt::Long))

The eval q{use Pod::Usage}; will work, though those who are allergic to stringy evals will probably prefer something more like

require Pod::Usage;
Pod::Usage::pod2usage( ... );
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