System.IO.Ports.SerialPort and Multithreading

Question

I have some SerialPort code that constantly needs to read data from a serial interface (for example COM1). But this seems to be very CPU intensive and if the user moves the wind

Answer 1

The classic solution is to have a FIFO buffer. Ensure that the size of the FIFO is large enough to handle any critical case where there is a lot of input and the processor block is being taken up.

You could even have a 2-buffer system:

--->|Reader|-->FIFO-->|Processor|--->FIFO2--->|Displayer|