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								# throat
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								Throttle the parallelism of an asynchronous, promise returning, function / functions.  This has special utility when you set the concurrency to `1`.  That way you get a mutually exclusive lock.
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								[](https://travis-ci.org/ForbesLindesay/throat)
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								[](https://coveralls.io/r/ForbesLindesay/throat?branch=master)
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								[](https://david-dm.org/ForbesLindesay/throat)
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								[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/throat)
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								[](https://greenkeeper.io/)
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								[](https://saucelabs.com/u/throat)
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								## Installation
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								    npm install throat
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								## API
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								### throat(concurrency)
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								This returns a function that acts a bit like a lock (exactly as a lock if concurrency is 1).
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								Example, only 2 of the following functions will execute at any one time:
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								```js
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								const throat = require('throat')(2);
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								// alternatively provide your own promise implementation
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								const throat = require('throat')(require('promise'))(2);
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								const promise = Promise.resolve();
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								const resA = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
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								const resB = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
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								const resC = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
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								const resD = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
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								const resE = throat(() => /* async stuff... */ promise);
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								```
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								### throat(concurrency, worker)
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								This returns a function that is an exact copy of `worker` except that it will only execute up to `concurrency` times in parallel before further requests are queued:
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								```js
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								const throat = require('throat');
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								// alternatively provide your own promise implementation
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								const throat = require('throat')(require('promise'));
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								const input = ['fileA.txt', 'fileB.txt', 'fileC.txt', 'fileD.txt'];
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								const data = Promise.all(input.map(throat(2, fileName => readFile(fileName))));
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								```
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								Only 2 files will be read at a time, sometimes limiting parallelism in this way can improve scalability.
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								## License
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								  MIT
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