There's a lot of FUD out there about the performance of various OO modules, particularly Mouse. So let's set it straight with some benchmarking.

I've chosen to simulate that buggaboo of OO performance in Perl, the simple accessor. The one that you're going to call millions of times and that you'll be sorely tempted to reimplement with a hash or tear all the argument checks out of for "performance". To make it a little more realistic, I'm checking both getting and setting as well as a simple argument check.