debugprofilestop

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Added in 1.7.0 / 1.13.2

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!")

See also

• debugprofilestart