I'd like to see any Benchmark that could show that using that technique you describe could provide measurable performance gains.

#! perl -w
use strict;
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);

sub parent {
    return ++$_[$#_]; # minimal use of entire passed array.
}

sub child1 {
    my ($self, @rest) = @_;
    return parent(@rest);
}

sub child2 {
    my $self = shift;
    goto &parent;
}

print 'child1: ', child1( "fred", 1..1000 ), $/;
print 'child2: ', child2( "bill", 1..1000 ), $/;

cmpthese( 10000, {
    noShiftOrGoto    => sub { child1( "fred", 1..1000 ); },
    shiftAndGoto    => sub { child2( "bill", 1..1000 ); },
});

__DATA__
C:\test>196823
child1: 1001
child2: 1001
Benchmark: timing 10000 iterations of noShiftOrGoto, shiftAndGoto...
noShiftOrGoto: 33 wallclock secs (32.33 usr +  0.00 sys = 32.33 CPU) @
+ 309.35/s (n=10000)
shiftAndGoto:  6 wallclock secs ( 5.85 usr +  0.00 sys =  5.85 CPU) @ 
+1709.69/s (n=10000)
                Rate noShiftOrGoto  shiftAndGoto
noShiftOrGoto  309/s            --          -82%
shiftAndGoto  1710/s          453%            --

C:\test>
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