Hi all,
From the document of 'setTimeLimit', it states "Setting any limit has
a small overhead ? well under 1% on the systems measured.", but
something is wrong with my benchmark code, enabling the time limit
makes my benchmark 1x slower than the benchmark without the limit.
Below is an example
```
benchFunc <- function(x, data) {
value <- 0
for(i in 1:5000){
for(j in seq_along(data))
value <- value + data[j]
}
value
}
data <- sample(1:10, 10)
setTimeLimit(Inf, Inf, FALSE)
system.time(lapply(1:5000, benchFunc, data = data))
setTimeLimit(999, 999, FALSE)
system.time(lapply(1:5000, benchFunc, data = data))
```
Here are the test results
setTimeLimit(Inf, Inf, FALSE) system.time(lapply(1:5000, benchFunc, data = data))
user system elapsed 10.809 0.006 10.812
setTimeLimit(999, 999, FALSE) system.time(lapply(1:5000, benchFunc, data = data))
user system elapsed 13.634 6.478 20.106 As a side note, it looks like the GC consumes the most CPU time. The GC costs 10 secs without the time limit, but 19 secs with the limit. Any thoughts? Best, Jiefei