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 | ID                        | Rule                                                                                                   |
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 | <a name="2.1">1</a>       | A `Subscriber` MUST signal demand via `Subscription.request(long n)` to receive `onNext` signals. |
-| [:bulb:](#2.1 "2.1 explained") | *The intent of this rule is to establish that it is the responsibility of the Subscriber to decide when and how many elements it is able and willing to receive. To avoid signal reordering caused by reentrant Subscription methods, it is strongly RECOMMENDED for synchronous Subscriber implementations to invoke Subscription methods at the very end of any signal processing.* |
+| [:bulb:](#2.1 "2.1 explained") | *The intent of this rule is to establish that it is the responsibility of the Subscriber to decide when and how many elements it is able and willing to receive. To avoid signal reordering caused by reentrant Subscription methods, it is strongly RECOMMENDED for synchronous Subscriber implementations to invoke Subscription methods at the very end of any signal processing. It is RECOMMENDED that Subscribers request the upper limit of what they are able to process, as requesting only one element at a time results in an inherently inefficient "stop-and-wait" protocol.* |
 | <a name="2.2">2</a>       | If a `Subscriber` suspects that its processing of signals will negatively impact its `Publisher`´s responsivity, it is RECOMMENDED that it asynchronously dispatches its signals. |
 | [:bulb:](#2.2 "2.2 explained") | *The intent of this rule is that a Subscriber should [not obstruct](#term_non-obstructing) the progress of the Publisher from an execution point-of-view. In other words, the Subscriber should not starve the Publisher from receiving CPU cycles.* |
 | <a name="2.3">3</a>       | `Subscriber.onComplete()` and `Subscriber.onError(Throwable t)` MUST NOT call any methods on the `Subscription` or the `Publisher`. |