is there a way to create a

<http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO>

"clone" which has an even lesser number of threads? I see that

<http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO>

is defined as

LimitingDispatcher(this, parallelism, TaskMode.PROBABLY_BLOCKING)

, should it be possible to re-use the same implementation?

You can configure the maximum number of threads in the pool of

<http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO>

with the "`kotlinx.coroutines.io.parallelism`" JVM property: https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines/-dispatchers/-i-o.html