Is there a CPAN module which implements lazy compilation of modules via the following idea:

1. unshifts a sub ref/object to @INC which when use X is encountered will install an AUTOLOAD stub for package X.

2. The AUTOLOAD stub will 1) remove itself from package X and 2) perform a do on the real path of the module and 3) goto &$AUTOLOAD.

The main purpose would be to avoid loading/compiling a module until when one of its subroutines was actually called. It wouldn't work for all modules (such as meta-programming modules or ones that exported symbols), but it could work for fairly "conventional" modules.

Does anything like that currently exist?

In reply to lazy loading of modules by perl5ever

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