in reply to A Quest for Taint

One way you could do it could possibly be to develop/transfer the code in a normal perl program, then if nothing you are doing sets off taint, warnings and strict you can assume that your code is safe and run it in the future without the checks (as long as you change nothing significant).

So what I'm trying to say is that you don't need to always run under taint if you can verify your code or dangerous parts of it under taint.