Suspend the garbage collector during benchmarks

Suspending GC appears to make the benchmark results more consistent.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/common.lua b/tests/common.lua
index d712c83..fd0e805 100644
--- a/tests/common.lua
+++ b/tests/common.lua
@@ -128,12 +128,13 @@ end
 
 function benchmark(tests, iter, rep)
     local function bench(func, iter)
-        collectgarbage("collect")
+        collectgarbage("stop")
         local t = gettimeofday()
         for i = 1, iter do
             func(i)
         end
         t = gettimeofday() - t
+        collectgarbage("restart")
         return (iter / t)
     end