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Returns the time in milliseconds since the last call to debugprofilestart().
elapsedMilliseconds = debugprofilestop()
Returns
- elapsedMilliseconds
- number - Time since profiling was started in milliseconds.
Details
- Debug profiling provides a high-precision timer that can be used to profile code.
- Calling this function, despite its name, does NOT stop the timer. It simply returns the time since the previous debugprofilestart() call!
- Note that if you are simply using this to profile your own code, it is preferable to NOT keep re-starting the timer since it will interfere with other addons doing the same. Instead, do this:
local beginTime = debugprofilestop()
-- do lots of stuff
-- that takes lots of time
local timeUsed = debugprofilestop() -beginTime
print("I used "..timeUsed.." milliseconds!")