I’m using Kotlin/Native with the new memory model, and would like to launch a coroutine that does so...

# coroutines

[charleskorn]

I’m using Kotlin/Native with the new memory model, and would like to launch a coroutine that does some blocking I/O. On the JVM, I’d use <http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO> for this, but that seems to only exist on the JVM. Is there something else I should use for Kotlin/Native?

[jean]

I think we are supposed to use Dispatchers.Default, that’s what I do at least https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines/-coroutine-dispatcher/index.html

[Didier Villevalois]

Same question here. The documentation says that Dispatchers.Default is for compute-intensive coroutines.

How can I get the same elasticity features of <http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO> on Kotlin/Native? Is there a dispatcher implementation that allocates new system thread when too many threads are IO-blocked?