How do I choose between Semaphore and SemaphoreSlim?

Question

Their public interfaces appear similar. The documentation states that the SemaphoreSlim is a lightweight alternative and doesn\'t use Windows Kernel semaphores. This resou

Answer 1

The MSDN documentation describes the difference.

In one sentence:

• The SemaphoreSlim class represents a lightweight, fast semaphore that can be used for waiting within a single process when wait times are expected to be very short.