From 784c3a9720fbb148fd45adfc2919ed54937c3fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Turner <jason@emptycrate.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:12:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add slow test for creating variables

References #356
---
 performance_tests/create_variables.chai | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 performance_tests/create_variables.chai

diff --git a/performance_tests/create_variables.chai b/performance_tests/create_variables.chai
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e63e1a46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/performance_tests/create_variables.chai
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+def var_test(int n)
+{
+    for (var i = 0; i < n; ++i)   {
+        var j = 0
+    }
+}
+
+var n = 500000
+var_test(n) // takes 2.6 s
+
+