I'm running into a problem where my code is not the bottleneck but the modules I "use" is.

How do I benchmark modules? I tried this: 

#!perl -w

use Benchmark;

my $bench1 = new Benchmark;

use strict;
use CGI ':standard';
#use XML::Simple;
use HTML::Entities;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple 'get';
use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $bench2 = new Benchmark;

print timestr timediff $bench2, $bench1;

[download]

... but it doesn't work (keeps printing 0s). Am I doing something wrong here? Or does perl load the modules even before my code gets interpreted?
I _know_ this is the bottleneck because running this script takes ~0.3s on my ActiveState/Win2K box and the entire script doesn't take much more than that. (and no, I'm not using an extremely slow hard drive ;-) )

Seriously, I'd like to know which one of these modules is the slowest so I can find a way around it ...

Thanks,
CBAS

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