Here’s the translated Chapel code and explanation in Markdown format suitable for Hugo:
Rate limiting is an important mechanism for controlling resource utilization and maintaining quality of service. Chapel elegantly supports rate limiting with tasks, channels, and timers.
Running our program we see the first batch of requests handled once every ~200 milliseconds as desired.
For the second batch of requests we serve the first 3 immediately because of the burstable rate limiting, then serve the remaining 2 with ~200ms delays each.
In this Chapel version, we’ve used the Time module for timing operations and the channel type for communication between tasks. The begin statement is used to create a new task for the bursty limiter. The overall structure and logic of the rate limiting example is preserved, adapted to Chapel’s syntax and idioms.