I would expect that, because it looks like in current form this byte-loader thing is sitting on top of perl, so it's not really bypassing anything.

Also, you seem to be using perl only for web-serving, and quite often I use it stand-alone, and there it would be nice to have fast-loading apps.

And although precompiling apps might have negligible effect on performance ( very rarely I write >10k LOC apps ), precompiling libs would be huge.

And probably it would require much less resources from the host, thus enabling perl-written apps on embeded platforms.