Serial.print latency problem

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Software Interfacing
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Im getting a two second delay when reading the serial port on the Arduino from Processing…

My arduino code looks like:

void loop() {
  
  // wait if any serial is going on
  FreqCounter::f_comp=106;
  FreqCounter::start(1000);
  
  while (FreqCounter::f_ready == 0) 
  frq=FreqCounter::f_freq;
  Serial.println(frq);
}

My Processing code looks like:

 while(true) {
      inString = myPort.readStringUntil('\n');

     if (inString != null) {
           // trim off any whitespace:
         inString = trim(inString);
         // convert to an int
         frequency = int(inString); 
          println(frequency); 
         if(frequency >= 0 && frequency < 3000) {
         sine.setFreq(frequency);
          }
      // sine.setFreq(5000);
     } 
  }

Basically the Arduino calculates a frequency based on the position of my finger acting as a potentiometer and sends the frequency to Processing. Processing takes that frequency and turns it into sound.

But I get a 2 second delay between touching and hearing sound…

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks!

#2 
while (FreqCounter::f_ready == 0)
frq=FreqCounter::f_freq;

Is that deliberate, or is there a semicolon missing?

How do we know what happens in "FreqCounter"?

#3