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doc: document relationships between time() and timeEnd()
`console.time()` and `console.timeEnd()` are very closely related. It's
useful to reference them both from each other.

Previously, console.time() did not mention that it needed to be paired
with a call to console.timeEnd() to be useful, and timeEnd() also failed
to mention that console.time() needed to be called first.

References in both directions have been added.
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markstos committed Dec 23, 2014
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## console.time(label)

Mark a time.
Used to calculate the duration of a specific operation. To start a timer, call
the `console.time()` method, giving it a name as only parameter. To stop the
timer, and to get the elapsed time in miliseconds, just call the
[`console.timeEnd()`](#console_console_timeend_label) method, again passing the
timer's name as the parameter.

## console.timeEnd(label)

Finish timer, record output. Example:
Stops a timer that was previously started by calling
[`console.time()`](#console_console_time_label) and print the result to the
console.

Example:

console.time('100-elements');
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
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