Pool
A Pool is a set of temporary objects that may be individually saved and retrieved.
Pool provides a way to amortize allocation overhead. It serves for when there
are multiple users of a resource, and we would like to avoid having to create
a new time every time we need to.
Pool caches allocated but unused items so that they can be available for later
use. It releives pressure from the garbage collector. However,
Any item stored in the Pool may be removed automatically at
any time without notification.
type Pool struct {
// New optionally specifies a function to generate
// a value when Get would otherwise return nil.
// It may not be changed concurrently with calls to Get.
New func() interface{}
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
The important bit from the definition is that, whenever we call
Get, and there are no items left in the pool, then it creates
a new one by calling New.
Once an item has been used, it can be returned to the Pool by
calling Put. Put adds an item back into the Pool.