note chrestomanci <p>I am doing that, the work finding thread is putting the work it finds into a [mod://Thread::Queue] object.</p> <p>The reason I want to use a semaphore as well is because the work finder runs much faster than the workers, but is quite expensive in terms of resource consumption.</p> <p>If there was not a mechanism to pause the work finder when there is enough work in the queue, it would build a queue of millions of items and waste a lot of memory and other resources in the process.</p> 952465 952468