The following command sometimes takes as much as half a minute to run under Cygwin (1-7.19-1) and perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int on an otherwise idle system with 16GB of RAM and an 8-core CPU running Windows 7. 
$ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp'

real    0m38.796s
user    0m0.109s
sys     0m0.124s

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The second time it is executed it is typically considerably faster. 
$ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp'

real    0m2.498s
user    0m0.124s
sys     0m0.124s

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I have run the command under strace to see if there was a particular system call that takes a long time to execute, but a cursory examination of the output didn't show me such a culprit.

I also looked at the time when each included file is opened, and I see that they are evenly spread out, with some however (warnings, Cwd, Config, Basename, constant) taking more than a second to load. 

$ awk '/open: open/{print $2 / 1e6, $7}' strace.out

0.062687 open(/dev/urandom,
0.093652 open(/dev/urandom,
0.162175 open(/dev/null,
0.332337 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/File/Temp.pm,
0.413667 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/strict.pm,
0.574798 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/Carp.pm,
0.647806 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/warnings.pm,
2.12777 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/Exporter.pm,
2.40747 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/File/Spec.p
+m,
2.48178 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/vars.pm,
2.56121 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/warnings/register.pm,
2.83884 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/File/Spec/C
+ygwin.pm,
3.06084 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/File/Spec/U
+nix.pm,
3.59694 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/File/Path.pm,
3.67258 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/Cwd.pm,
4.72324 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/XSLoader.pm,
4.94318 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/DynaLoader.
+pm,
5.00538 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/Config.pm,
16.219 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/File/Basename.pm,
17.3896 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/Fcntl.pm,
17.7389 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/IO/Seekable
+.pm,
17.8311 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/IO/Handle.p
+m,
17.9298 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/Symbol.pm,
18.1662 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/SelectSaver.pm,
18.2823 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/IO.pm,
19.0989 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/Errno.pm,
19.468 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/base.pm,
19.8129 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/overload.pm,
20.236 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/constant.pm,
22.0238 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/Carp/Heavy.pm,
22.1132 open(/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/Exporter/Heavy.pm,

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In reply to File::Temp painfully slow under Cygwin by dds

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