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asad.awadia
11/24/2019, 3:55 PMdoes wrapping blocking calls
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streetsofboston
11/24/2019, 4:24 PMNo. It does not prevent threads from getting blocked. It does prevent the calling thread from being blocked (instead, the calling thread will be suspended)
The Dispatchers.IO dispatcher, however, is designed to handle blocking threads (its pool is large and tailored for running code that may get blocked (often) - and do nothing but wait)
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asad.awadia
11/24/2019, 5:23 PMI thought it had only 64 threads
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louiscad
11/24/2019, 11:28 PMONLY? 64 threads is a lot! You can still change it though.
That's the upper bound BTW, it won't create 64 threads if you only need 13.
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asad.awadia
11/24/2019, 11:29 PMMaybe client side 64 is a lot
I m looking at it from server side
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louiscad
11/24/2019, 11:32 PMOn server side, you should use non blocking I/O whenever possible so you don't need
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