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Can you show an example of using the group wait mechanism in programming?
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Answer from AI
In Go, the synchronization mechanism WaitGroup is used to wait for a set of goroutines to finish. It is convenient when you need to launch several parallel tasks and wait for their completion.
Example:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"sync"
)
func worker(id int, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
defer wg.Done() // Indicate that the work is done
fmt.Printf("Worker %d started\n", id)
// Here can be any work
fmt.Printf("Worker %d finished\n", id)
}
func main() {
var wg sync.WaitGroup
numWorkers := 3
wg.Add(numWorkers) // Set the number of goroutines to wait for
for i := 1; i <= numWorkers; i++ {
go worker(i, &wg)
}
wg.Wait() // Wait until all goroutines call Done()
fmt.Println("All workers completed")
}
In this example, main launches 3 goroutines, each executing the worker function. WaitGroup allows main to wait for all goroutines to finish before exiting the program.