Hm, it wouldn't be very hard to do this with Perl. I can think of two approaches: either invoke perl via system(), or use string-based eval.

The following can be used like:
# this_script.pl [--eval] [--perl /my/perl/interpreter] module module2 module3 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::HiRes;
use Benchmark ':hireswallclock',':all';
use Getopt::Long;

my $PERL = 'C:\\Perl\bin\perl.exe';
my $use_eval = 0;

GetOptions ( 'perl=s' => \$PERL, 'eval' => \$use_eval );

my %testhash = map { 
   $_ => ( $use_eval ? "eval 'use $_'" : "system('$PERL', '-M$_ ', '-e
+1')" )
} @ARGV;

timethese( ($use_eval ? 10000 : 1000), \%testhash );

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This one was created to work with ActiveState Perl on Windows. Pass the --perl parameter to use it on other platforms.

Update:itub confirms my suspicions that eval isn't as accurate a test as the system route. Thanks for the explanation of why, itub! It's worth noting that the system call is the default approach in the code above.

Updates:

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In reply to Perl port? by radiantmatrix
in thread Benchmarks for module compilation time by itub

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