Interestingly, I wrote my own converter when solving The Weekly Challenge 010 (and reused it when solving The Weekly Challenge 047). It performs comparably to your code on my machine while using a slightly different approach. 
my %from_roman = (
    I => 1,
    V => 5,
    X => 10,
    L => 50,
    C => 100,
    D => 500,
    M => 1000,
);
sub from_roman (_) {
    my ($roman) = @_;
    my $n = 0;
    while ($roman =~ s/(I[VXLCDM]|X[LCDM]|C[DM])//) {
        my ($minus, $plus) = split //, $1;
        $n += $from_roman{$plus} - $from_roman{$minus};
    }
    $n += $from_roman{$_} for split //, $roman;
    $n
}

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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re: Risque Romantic Rosetta Roman Race by choroba
in thread Risque Romantic Rosetta Roman Race by eyepopslikeamosquito

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