# Timers Not Frame Rate Dependent & Starting On Demand - Oh Please Oh Please :)

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/timers-not-frame-rate-dependent-starting-on-demand-oh-please-oh-please/23994>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/timers-not-frame-rate-dependent-starting-on-demand-oh-please-oh-please/23994 "2020-09-21T06:06:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![noel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/noel/32/213_2.png) [@noel](https://discourse.processing.org/u/noel)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/timers-not-frame-rate-dependent-starting-on-demand-oh-please-oh-please/23994/2 "2020-09-21T08:46:25Z")

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> [@mnoble](#):
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> which I am pretty sure you can’t do with millis())

Why that?  
You made already a [topic](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-millis-heavy-on-cpu-program-efficiency/23266/6) about timers recently.

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