Performance mode

.gitignore

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 *.code-workspace
 .DS_Store
 docs/build/
+LocalPreferences.toml
 Manifest.toml
 tmp/
 .vscode/

Project.toml

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 NLsolve = "2774e3e8-f4cf-5e23-947b-6d7e65073b56"
 NearestNeighbors = "b8a86587-4115-5ab1-83bc-aa920d37bbce"
 PolynomialBases = "c74db56a-226d-5e98-8bb0-a6049094aeea"
+Preferences = "21216c6a-2e73-6563-6e65-726566657250"
 QuadGK = "1fd47b50-473d-5c70-9696-f719f8f3bcdc"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"

src/Helpers/Helpers.jl

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ $(EXPORTS)
 module Helpers
 using DocStringExtensions
 
+@static if VERSION >= v"1.6"
+  using Preferences
+end
+
 import Base: +, -, *, /, transpose, adjoint
 import LinearAlgebra: cross, tr, dot
 
@@ -21,8 +25,11 @@ export tfill
 export get_val_parameter
 export first_and_tail
 export GridapType
+export set_execution_mode
 #export operate
 
+include("Preferences.jl")
+
 include("Macros.jl")
 
 include("HelperFunctions.jl")

src/Helpers/Macros.jl

@@ -53,11 +53,16 @@ end
   @check condition "Error message"
 
 Macro used to make sure that condition is fulfilled, like `@assert`
-but the check gets deactivated when running Julia with --boundscheck=no
+but the check gets deactivated when running Gridap in performance mode.
 """
 macro check(test,msg="A check failed")
-  quote
-    @boundscheck @assert $(esc(test)) $(esc(msg))
+  @static if execution_mode == "debug"
+    quote
+      @assert $(esc(test)) $(esc(msg))
+    end
+  else
+    quote
+      nothing
+    end
   end
 end
-

src/Helpers/Preferences.jl

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+"""
+    set_execution_mode(new_mode::String)
+
+Sets the execution mode to either "debug" or "performance", which controls 
+the behavior of the @check macro within the Gridap package.
+"""
+function set_execution_mode(new_mode::String)
+  if !(new_mode in ("debug", "performance"))
+      throw(ArgumentError("Invalid execution mode: \"$(new_mode)\""))
+  end
+
+  # Set it in our runtime values, as well as saving it to disk
+  @set_preferences!("execution_mode" => new_mode)
+  @info("New execution mode set; restart your Julia session for this change to take effect!")
+end
+
+@static if VERSION >= v"1.6"
+  const execution_mode = @load_preference("execution_mode", "debug")
+else
+  const execution_mode = "debug"
+end