This doesn't solve the problem. The code initializing aconst should be only 
evaluated once!
Consider:
test(x=[]) = push!(x, 1)
let x=[]
global test2
test2() = push!(x, 1)
end

test() # -> Any[1]
test() # -> Any[1]

test2() # -> Any[1]
test2() # -> Any[1,1]

This can be useful, either because initializing x is very expensive, or 
because you're gathering some resource.

Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2015 17:20:02 UTC+1 schrieb Simon Danisch:
>
> Hi, 
> I was trying to find out, what the best way is to have some local, 
> constant storage for a function, which is only accessible from inside the 
> function
> So something like this:
> begin
> const local a = []
> test() = dosomething(a)
> end
>
> I was quite surprised, that you can't do this efficiently.
> Or at least I didn't find a way, or tested it incorrectly.
> Here are the different combinations I tried and the emitted native code:
>
> https://gist.github.com/SimonDanisch/e4bed0a16bdd847a8c2b#file-local_function_storage-jl
>
> test11 && test12 seems to be what julia does internally for test1-test4 
> (and the example here)
> It's especially odd, as a global const seems to be faster than a local 
> const, even though that the local version is more restricted.
> Is this because there has been more time spend on making globals fast?
>
> Best,
> Simon
>

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