it not only decreases the size, to load in RAM, also make it 'little harder' for cocky-novices to steal the tricks (perl guru's anyway dont care).
http://www.stunnix.com/prod/po/ (binary not present to download??) http://blueboxtech.co.uk/perlplexity/ (failed to remove trailing comments...) http://creativyst.com/cgi-bin/Prod/19/eg/PerlPack.pl