I’ve found that lowering the latency on an FTDI serial device to 1 or 2 milliseconds gives improved performance for datalogging and other communications, at least at the 8192 baud rates we work with.
Give it a shot!
The next version of EEHack, which uses a threads, message queues, and switchboards instead of simple order-of-operations and timers, approaches 17 samples per second in ‘patched’ mode on several test systems with the reduced latency.. which is probably about the maximum you’ll ever see on this old ECM.