Snoopi "misses" top-level functions if the whole block gets inferred. i.e. `@time @snoopi` breaks results. about snoopcompile.jl

[NHDaly]

For completeness, the relevant section in the @time macro that makes it different from my elapsed-time measurement is this while false end trick to force the compiler to compile the whole block:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/4422648a3c4d136dc1c2f5617041cae95e05dbaf/base/timing.jl#L182

[NHDaly]

After thinking more about this, I don't see any way to avoid this other than to put the body of the macro into an eval statement.

And I now increasingly think this would be a good change, and mirrors the way @snoopc (and @snoopl) will run the body in an entirely new julia process. It seems quite reasonable to me to run the body at the top-level. That's a less wild change and i think will provide results that are closer to what users expect! :)

Does that sound reasonable to you?

[timholy]

Yes, it does seem that we need to hide it a bit.