# Function with initialized data

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/function-with-initialized-data/3908>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [May 24, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/function-with-initialized-data/3908 "2017-05-24T12:13:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/function-with-initialized-data/3908/2 "2017-05-24T12:21:08Z")

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Don’t benchmark in global scope: put the variable definitions and the benchmarking code inside a function.

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