“Throttled” async download in F#

Question

I\'m trying to download the 3000+ photos referenced from the xml backup of my blog. The problem I came across is that if just one of those photos is no longer available, the

Answer 1

Here's an out of the box solution:

FSharpx.Control offers an Async.ParallelWithThrottle function. I'm not sure if it is the best implementation as it uses SemaphoreSlim. But the ease of use is great and since my application doesn't need top performance it works well enough for me. Although since it is a library if someone knows how to make it better it is always a nice thing to make libraries top performers out of the box so the rest of us can just use the code that works and just get our work done!