Watchers toggler directive

usage.html

<div ng-app>
    <div ng-controller="TestCtrl">
        <ul ng-repeat="elements in array" watchers-toggler="toggler()">
            <li ng-repeat="element in elements">{{element}}</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

usage.js

function TestCtrl($scope, $timeout) {
  $scope.array = [];
  for(var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    $scope.array[i] = [];
    for(var j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
      $scope.array[i].push(j);
    }
  }
  $scope.tog = false;
  $scope.toggler = function() { return $scope.tog };
  
  // manipulate the $scope.tog variable and check number of watchers
}

watchers-toggler.js

module
.directive('watchersToggler', ['$parse', '$timeout', function($parse, $timeout) {
  return {
    restrict: 'EA',
    scope: {
      toggler: '&watchersToggler',
      refreshSuspensionOn: '=refreshHideOn'
    },
    link: function($scope, element, attrs) {
      var watchers = {
        suspended: false
      };

      $scope.$watch(function() { return $scope.toggler() }, function(newToggler, oldToggler) {
        if(typeof newToggler == 'boolean') {
          if(newToggler) {
            //element.hide(); - with jquery dependency
            element.css('display', 'none');
            suspendFromRoot();
          } else {
            //element.show(); - with jquery dependency
            element.css('display', 'block');
            resumeFromRoot();
          }
        }
      });

      $scope.$watch('refreshSuspensionOn', function(newVal, oldVal) {
        if(newVal !== oldVal) refreshSuspensionFromRoot()
      }, true);


      function suspendFromRoot() {
        if(!watchers.suspended) {
          $timeout(function() {
            suspendWatchers();
            watchers.suspended = true;
          })
        }
      }

      function refreshSuspensionFromRoot() {
        if(watchers.suspended) {
          $timeout(function() {
            suspendWatchers();
          })
        }
      }

      function resumeFromRoot() {
        if(watchers.suspended) {
          $timeout(function() {
            resumeWatchers();
            watchers.suspended = false;
          })
        }
      }

      function suspendWatchers() {
        iterateSiblings($scope, suspendScopeWatchers);
        iterateChildren($scope, suspendScopeWatchers);
      };

      function resumeWatchers() {
        iterateSiblings($scope, resumeScopeWatchers);
        iterateChildren($scope, resumeScopeWatchers);
      };

      var mockScopeWatch = function(scopeId) {
        return function(watchExp, listener, objectEquality, prettyPrintExpression) {
          watchers[scopeId].unshift({
            fn: angular.isFunction(listener) ? listener : angular.noop,
            last: void 0,
            get: $parse(watchExp),
            exp: prettyPrintExpression || watchExp,
            eq: !!objectEquality
          })
        }
      }

      function suspendScopeWatchers(scope) {
        if(!watchers[scope.$id]) {
          watchers[scope.$id] = scope.$$watchers || [];
          scope.$$watchers = [];
          scope.$watch = mockScopeWatch(scope.$id)
        }
      }

      function resumeScopeWatchers(scope) {
        if(watchers[scope.$id]) {
          scope.$$watchers = watchers[scope.$id];
          if(scope.hasOwnProperty('$watch')) delete scope.$watch;
          watchers[scope.$id] = false
        }
      }

      function iterateSiblings(scope, operationOnScope) {
        while (!!(scope = scope.$$nextSibling)) {
          operationOnScope(scope);
          iterateChildren(scope, operationOnScope);
        }
      }

      function iterateChildren(scope, operationOnScope) {
        while (!!(scope = scope.$$childHead)) {
          operationOnScope(scope);
          iterateSiblings(scope, operationOnScope);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}]);

I am using this directive but it's giving error for $compile:multidir Multiple Directive Resource Contention.