Without seeing your code, but having spent some time with Devel::DProf myself, I will guess that you are use'ing a number of modules.

If I remember correctly,

use foo;
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is implemented as

BEGIN {
  require foo;
  import foo;
}
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So, even though you are not explicitly using BEGIN blocks, you are using them implicitly through any use statements.

I would delve into the correct manpages and verify my memory, but I am far from any machine with perl installed on it :( And I have no ssh to get to a machine I could so use.

mikfire