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Has somebody replaced a ThreadPoolExecutor + BlockingQueue with Coroutines? The Thread pool acts as a spooler for the blocking queue. Jobs can continue to arrive indefinitely while some of them are executed. Primarily each jobs does I/O, so I want to get rid of the current blocking solution in favor of a coroutine based solution. Right now I can control also the number of parallel jobs (which are tied to the number of threads) and wonder if I could still do the same with Coroutines. Any advice greatly appreciated!

it sounds like you want to use the `IO` dispatcher + a `Semaphore` to control how many jobs + a `Channel` to replace the queue

<https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.sync/-semaphore/>
<https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.channels/-channel/>