uses 10 modules

While you may be using only 10 modules directly, those modules use other modules (then these again may use other modules - you get the idea) so in reality your script may be loading dozens or even hundreds of modules under the hood.

For every module the Pi has to load the file and execute it.

So there are two reasons of slowness: The slowness of the Pi's CPU and the slowness of the SD-card as a storage medium.

To mitigate the CPU-slowness you could try to overclock the Pi (this is pretty safe), to mitigate the slowness of the card you could use a USB-stick or a USB hard-drive and set up your perl-environment in such a way that it loads the modules from there.

I fact you can even set up the Pi in such a way that it loads the whole OS from a USB-device (but you still need an SD-card for booting) which should also speed up the boot process.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.