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 ## Features:
 
 - Automatically managing and recycling a massive number of goroutines.
-- Periodically clearing the overdue goroutines.
+- Periodically clearing overdue goroutines.
 - Friendly interfaces: submitting tasks, getting the number of running goroutines, readjusting capacity of pool dynamically, closing pool.
 - Efficient in memory usage and it even achieves higher performance than unlimited goroutines in golang.