Now depending on the nature of the blocking operat...

# coroutines

[elizarov]

Now depending on the nature of the blocking operation (CPU bound/IO bound/etc) and the overall resource-management architecture of your application, you might want to replace CommonPool with some other appropriate dispatcher. You can always create a private dispatcher just for a certain class of operations in your app, for example:

val computePool = newFixedThreadPoolContext(nThreadsForCompute, "compute")