Thread Throttling
Let's discuss a practical use case of semaphores to control the number of running threads.
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One other simple use case for semaphores arises on occasion, and thus we present it here. The specific problem is this: how can a programmer prevent “too many” threads from doing something at once and bogging the system down? Answer: decide upon a threshold for “too many”, and then use a semaphore to limit the number of threads concurrently executing the piece of code in question. We ...