FastSerial library purpose?

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Randolph Testa June 29, 2023 at 3:53am

thanks

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Randy January 10, 2012 at 3:57pm

I believe the standard serial library from Arduino is (or at least was) blocking. so if you sent a bunch of bytes, your cpu would not be able to do other tasks until all bytes were sent. The FastSerial library can send the bytes in the background.

The only qualification is that I believe in Arduino 1.0 that they've enhanced the standard serial library to also be non-blocking so in the medium term we might be able to switch back to the standard library.

Artem > Randy June 4, 2014 at 6:00pm

Hi Randy, do you happen to know if the current Serial library for arduino is still blocking MCU for the time of serial communication, or has it been fixed? I need to compile something for a Leonardo board and fast serial doesn't support it, but I still need non-blocking serial communication.

Thank you,
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  Randy > Artem June 4, 2014 at 9:30pm
  
  Artem,
  
  I haven't been keeping up with Arduino so I'm not sure if it's still blocking or not. Sorry!

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