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jladasky@itu.edu writes:
> high rate, about 5,000 16-bit unsigned integers per second....
> Using PySerial to handle UART over USB.  Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @
> 4.00GHz.

This really should not be an issue.  That's not such a terribly high
speed, and there's enough buffering in the kernel that you shouldn't
lose anything.