We all know every loop has a termination condition (conditions can be anything). And this code snippet is for terminating a while loop after a certain time. This is an actually funny script which is, increasing a value a certain time and then decreasing that value a certain time period.
From the above code snippet, you can see there is variable called $totalTime which carrying the total number of execution time (in second) for loop. Then $totalTime is divided into the two periods, and the first half is using to increasing the $counter value and the second half is using to decreasing that $counter value.
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