Using Serial.print for debugging significantly slows down a sketch. Once I have a sketch working as I want (for now), I may use find and replace and change Serial.print to //Serial.print and this speeds everything up. Do i need to do this or simply comment out the Serial.begin? If I do just commen…

I'm often using this for debug #define DEBUG 1 // SET TO 0 OUT TO REMOVE TRACES #if DEBUG #define D_SerialBegin(...) Serial.begin(__VA_ARGS__) #define D_print(...) Serial.print(__VA_ARGS__) #define D_write(...) Serial.write(__VA_ARGS__) #define D_println(...) Serial.println(__VA…

Serial.print Program Lag

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david_2018 February 18, 2024, 4:57pm 5

Any more than 63 characters within any 65mS period of time can cause blocking.

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Serial.print Program Lag

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