How to limit the amount of concurrent async I/O operations?

Question

// let\'s say there is a list of 1000+ URLs
string[] urls = { \"http://google.com\", \"http://yahoo.com\", ... };

// now let\'s send HTTP requests to each of these          


        

Answer 1

Parallel computations should be used for speeding up CPU-bound operations. Here we are talking about I/O bound operations. Your implementation should be purely async, unless you're overwhelming the busy single core on your multi-core CPU.

EDIT I like the suggestion made by usr to use an "async semaphore" here.