You might want to take a look at devel::smallprof. It has a the facility to specify which packages should be profiled which allows you to concentrate your efforts on those modules under your purvue. It also profiles line-by-line rather than sub-by-sub, which I've found more useful.

I looked briefly at that but figured it would actually be more verbose in this case because it goes line by line, but I didn't see the option to specify packages. Thanks, I'll check it out.

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"The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx

Yes, I agree with djantzen that it is more bombastic going line by line.

I just wrote a one-off script to filter the output, and it shrank the output down to about 10,000 lines, much improved. The basic idea is just to look for modules I care about and forbid some commonly occuring but unhelpful methods like BEGIN, AUTOLOADS, etc. Obviously the code isn't very generalizable but I wonder if the problem is more commonly encountered. I'd like it if the -T option took some options on what to display and what to omit.

use strict;
use warnings;

setpriority(0, 0, 19);

my ($dir, $forbidden_str, $in_file, @modules, $module_str, $out_file);

$dir = "$ENV{HOME}/lib/Workflow";
$in_file = "$dir/DEBUG.txt";
$out_file = "$dir/FILTERED.txt";

opendir(DIR, $dir);

foreach my $file (readdir(DIR)) {
  if ($file =~ /^(\w+)\.pm$/) {
    push (@modules, $1);
  }
}

closedir(DIR);

$forbidden_str = 'BEGIN|DESTROY|AUTOLOAD';
$module_str = join('|', @modules);

open(IN, $in_file);
open(OUT, ">$out_file");

while(<IN>) {
  if ($_ =~ $module_str && $_ !~ /$forbidden_str/) {
    print(OUT $_);
  }

}

close(IN);
close(OUT);
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Update: actually using the $dir variable for it's intended purpose :)

       -t   Display subroutine call tree to stdout.  Subroutine statis
+tics are
            not displayed.  When a function is called multiple consecu
+tive
            times at the same calling level then it is displayed once 
+with a
            repeat count.

       -S   Display merged subroutine call tree to stdout.  Statistics
+ are
            displayed for each branch of the tree.

            When a function is called multiple (not necessarily consec
+utive)
            times in the same branch then all these calls go into one 
+branch
            of the next level.  A repeat count is output together with
+ com-
            bined inclusive, exclusive and kids time.

            Branches are sorted w.r.t. inclusive time.
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dprofpp -S | grep -v 'BEGIN'
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dprofpp -S | egrep 'Showme|MeToo'
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