Ideally, we should use an asynchronous mechanism for reading from serial streams to reduce latency. In Linux/OSX, etc., the select() can be used to achieve asynchronous reads from a serial port. However, this method does not seem appropriate for Windows.
See here and here for some leads on how we might implement cross-platform support for asynchronous reads from serial streams. It might also be worth looking into pyuv.
Reading from serial stream currently uses polling with a default delay of 10ms between polls.
Ideally, we should use an asynchronous mechanism for reading from serial streams to reduce latency. In Linux/OSX, etc., the
select()can be used to achieve asynchronous reads from a serial port. However, this method does not seem appropriate for Windows.See here and here for some leads on how we might implement cross-platform support for asynchronous reads from serial streams. It might also be worth looking into
pyuv.