I have about ten routines that are common to a number of classes. These routines are kept in a package called Func. After profiling an application with DProf, I was surprised to find that most of the time is being spent in the BEGIN section of Func. Here is the output from the profiler:

Total Elapsed Time = -36.6621 Seconds
  User+System Time = 86.44528 Seconds
Exclusive Times
%Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c  Name
 28.4   24.62 28.883 738874   0.0000 0.0000  SE::Util::Func::BEGIN
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Here is the top of the Func module:

package SE::Util::Func;

use Exporter;
@ISA = ('Exporter');
@EXPORT= qw(  SE_cat SE_dump SE_getName SE_getValue SE_isTag SE_matchN
+ame SE_matchNamePattern SE_prog SE_trim );
    
require 5.6.1;
use strict;
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Why is perl spending so much time in the BEGIN section of Func? Thanks.

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