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sprt on Jan 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Non-Blocking Parallelism for Services in Go

Agree, in fact this pattern is found almost verbatim in Go's documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/semaphore#example-packa...

burnthrow on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

Go's Memory Model documentation specifically recommends modeling a counting semaphore with a buffered channel.

https://golang.org/ref/mem#tmp_7

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