At 1/13/2004 08:48 AM, Jason Teagle wrote:
>> >I have discovered that WinXP seems to be slower at handling >> communications >> >than Win98. Bizarre as this sounds, it seems to be true. >> >> I would assume that's because device drivers on Win9x don't have >> to make OS >> transitions from user mode to kernel mode and back. > >Is there anything I can do about it? Write the code any differently for NT >architecture? Or are we looking at device driver territory?
I would think that the serial driver would already be written for efficiency, but I have no knowledge.
I suppose if it makes the transitions on every byte, this would not be efficient and some sort of buffered system would be faster.
Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
