docs: def get_times():
      """
      Produce a deepcopy of the current timing data (no risk of interference
      with active timing or other operaitons).
  
      Returns:
          Times: gtimer timing data structure object.
      """
      if f.root.stopped:
          return copy.deepcopy(f.root.times)
      else:
          t = timer()
          times = collapse.collapse_times()
          f.root.self_cut += timer() - t
          return times