Lua - Current time in milliseconds

Question

Is there a common way to get the current time in or with milliseconds?

There is os.time(), but it only provides full seconds.

Answer 1

If you want to benchmark, you can use os.clock as shown by the doc:

local x = os.clock()
local s = 0
for i=1,100000 do s = s + i end
print(string.format("elapsed time: %.2f\n", os.clock() - x))