Hi Páll,
> The @nogc macro was made a long time ago, I now see: > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/julia-users/Suspending$20Garbage$20Collection$20for$20Performance...good$20idea$20or$20bad$20idea$3F/julia-users/6_XvoLBzN60/nkB30SwmdHQJ > This is a very informative thread. Thank you for pointing it out! > > I'm not saying disabling the GC is preferred, just that the macro has been > done to do it had already been done. > > Karpinski has his own exception variant a little down the thread with "you > really want to put a try-catch around it". I just changed that variant so > it can be called recursively (and disabled try-catch as it was broken): > > macro nogc(ex) > quote > #try > local pref = gc_enable(false) > local val = $(esc(ex)) > #finally > gc_enable(pref) > #end > val > end > end > > > -Islam
