Question about performance about dfplayermini_fast HOT 4 CLOSED

This library is faster than the original since the original has a 8ms or so hard-coded delay for every command (and possibly a longer one for queries). This delay is not hard-coded in this lib. Are you having issues with processing speed?

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Actually I have a project that uses the original library, but I never did test on performance neither looked into the library.
I have just discovered your library, I was wondering a migration to your solution.

Are those hardcoded delays useful to something? I had already meet other libraries making use of "casual" delays...

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Are those hardcoded delays useful to something?

It really depends. The original lib uses the delay to keep the user from spamming commands/queries (otherwise the DFPlayer will become unresponsive), but this is only an edge case and such delays can be manually handled in the sketch if really needed.

Personally, I think my lib performs much better than the original as long as you know its limitations and how to use it.

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Perfect, thanks for the clear answer. Maybe you could add a similar explanation in the readme, so new comers will immediately understand the major improvements

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