FTDI user space on Windows

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 15 September 2018 at 01:48, Bill Perry <bill at billandterrie.com> wrote:
> Yes, I can do PR. (once I figure out how to do signing)

feel free to ask any github related questions, if any.

> but I don't understand:
>
>> sleeping for small chunks of time can end up being better.
>
> The modification I did used the exact same constant 1ms sleep after each ftdi_read_data() call that the current code does but it checked elapsed time prior each 1ms sleep
> rather than counting the number of 1ms sleeps until they equaled the desired millisecond timeout.
> Counting the number of 1ms sleeps done does not work since it does account for
> the time inside the loop (which can be significant like 100+ ms) since sometimes the ftdi_read_data() doesn't return immediately
> when there is no data.
> That is why looking at elapsed time is required.
>
> Are you wanting something smarter than changing the way the loop exits by checking elapsed time instead of blindly looping {timout} times?
>

ah, i misunderstood the initial comment, sorry.
i'd encourage you to send the PR so that we can have a look at the
code and discuss it.

thanks
lubomir
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