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I'm wondering what performance penalty I'm paying for

This will depend to some extent on your environment and therefore the only way to know for sure is to benchmark it.

An obvious solution would be to compile the Perl into e.g. C executables

I might humbly suggest that an even more obvious solution would be to enable back-end persistence via mod_perl or FCGI or some other proxy.

The other easy option is to split the POD from the code and store it elsewhere.

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