<How to implement a ratelimit across mutiple corou...

# stackoverflow

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How to implement a ratelimit across mutiple coroutines efficently?
So let's say I have a bunch of couroutines running that interact with some webservice and since I don't want to spam it I wanna limit the requests to 1 request every x seconds max. For that I could use some code like this:

fun CoroutineScope.rateLimiter(tokens: SendChannel, rate: Int) = launch {
var lastToken = System.currentTimeMillis()
while (isActive) {
val currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis()
if (currentTime - lastToken < rate) {
delay(currentTime...