As IlyaM says its because CGI is AUTOLOADing his subs on demand. But my question is this: Why do you care? A 10th of a second is hardly a long time to wait, and if your code does any IO at all that time will get completely swamped.

But if it really is an issue there are examples of handrolled autoloads in perltoot and perltootc, in addition to the prepacks that IlyaM mentions.

Oh and iirc there are issues with autloading methods, something about spoiling your method cache. But i cant remember where I heard that.

Yves / DeMerphq
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In reply to Re: Require Load Times by demerphq
in thread Require Load Times by Anonymous Monk

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