in reply to Re^4: Why can code be so slow?
in thread Why can code be so slow?

It looks like a lot of your time is being spent BEGIN time, at startup. You might want to try the approach I suggest here: Re^3: Why can code be so slow? to see if startup time is dominating your application.

If it is, the best solution is probably to avoid repeated startup (by using mod_perl or FastCGI) rather than optimising startup by avoiding CPAN modules.