Setting memory_limit in php.ini or \XF::setMemoryLimit(-1); for the specific job I am running?

[Orit]

Lately we have had memory problems with saving permissions to our registered usergroup.
We have more than 140K users, all are obviously in the registered usergroup, so it is quite a heavy task...

I was wondering what would be better:
Setting memory_limit as 1024m globally in php.ini,
or adding \XF::setMemoryLimit(-1); in the beginning of the actionUserGroupSave() and actionNodeSave() functions (as a way to disable the memory limit)?

Adding \XF::setMemoryLimit(-1); fixes the problem.
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