timer_start() │ WP 0.71

Start the WordPress micro-timer.

This is an internal function for using it by WP core itself. It's not recommended to use this function in your code.

1 time — 0.000015 sec (very fast) | 50000 times — 0.02 sec (speed of light)

No Hooks.

true|false. Always returns true.

timer_start();

This function is called by WP itself and it makes no sense to show an example of how it works.

See examples of timer_stop(), which works in conjunction with this function.

Global. float. $timestart Unix timestamp set at the beginning of the page load.
See: timer_stop()

Since 0.71

Introduced.

function timer_start() {
	global $timestart;
	$timestart = microtime( true );
	return true;
}