From c877da6c1f84b19cd2e7e8154b4a0d0e355745a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Pulford <mark@kyne.com.au>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:50:46 +0930
Subject: Suspend the garbage collector during benchmarks

Suspending GC appears to make the benchmark results more consistent.
---
 tests/common.lua | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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
 
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