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Tones411 — 2008-12-05T10:22:07

Use GetTickCount() instead. See: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/227.cfm

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ASandstrom — 2006-08-18T13:11:07

You do have to select the Enable Debugging option in the CF Administrator to enable this tag. This will be added to the next version of the documentation.

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bizarrojack — 2005-08-10T17:06:50

File this under likely-useless trivia:

Ironically, if you are using cftimer a lot, counting milliseconds and perhaps nesting cftimers, you may notice that cftimer can add perhaps 20 milliseconds to the total execution time of the page. It seems to be either 2ms or 20ms on my test system, depending on what, I do not know for sure, but nesting of cftimer seems to be a factor. So you might want to think about that if you are hunting down a speed problem and using a lot of cftimers . . . you could see your total execution time growing even as you are collecting speed data.
It is a debug tag and hopefully won't have a role in delivered applications, anyway.

To the previous poster, Yes, this is definitely only relevant to debugging mode. I'm sure there is a way to get hi res clock measurements for use in an application, but I don't know it yet. At worst, I am sure it could be done using cfimport and a java object.

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bsimmons — 2005-06-26T14:39:23

The page mentions that you have to check the "Timer Information" checkbox under the Debugging Settings in the Admin. However, it fails to mention that you also need to check the "Enable Debugging" checkbox. Is this an oversight in the docs, or should this tag work without enabling debugging?
It seems like being able to use the tag without having to Enable Debugging would be incredibly useful.
Or perhaps I'm missing something....