Slow proplist with perl SVN::Core

Everything is working great with SVN::Core in perl... until I try and
get a proplist:

my $props =
$ctx->proplist('https://somewhere.something.com/svn/blah/de/blah/File.pm',
'HEAD', 0);

Is taking almost exactly 5 seconds per file that I call it for. Using
the standard command line svn client to do a proplist on the same object
takes less than 1/10th of a second.

Willing to poke, prod and debug if I can get some pointers on where to
start.

Thanks to anyone that can help!

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