startTimer

Purpose: Starts a performance timer.

Syntax: startTimer Var

Var: A variable that will be used with stopTimer.

Notes: Unlike getTimer startTimer/stopTimer will measuer elapsed time in milliseconds. You can start as many timers as you like with differnt var names. They will run untill you call stopTimer.

Example:

StartTimer $Timer
# Do something that you want to time for performance.
StopTimer $Timer

echo "The task took " $Timer " MilliSeconds."