The timeStamp() function gives time-of-day in milliseconds.
The form is:
The function returns the number of milliseconds since 00:00 hours that day. This is useful for timing operations (presuming you are not timing across midnight.)
Example:
start = timeStamp()
process_mesh() -- do some big job
end = timeStamp()
format "Processing took % seconds\n" ((end - start) / 1000.0)