(Sorry, hit send too soon...)

getTESTInventoryPage(pg: Int)

makes a long-running SOAP call. I expected things to blow up--instead it appears to make the calls in an arbitrary order, but eight at a time (which happens to be the number of virtual cores on my machine. Which is exactly what I want. Which is extremely suspicious... 🙂

GlobalScope

uses

Dispatchers.Default

which uses this behaviour. It will delegate to Java's

ForkJoinPool

shared instance

Thanks Dico, That's pretty great--I assumed that behavior out of the box was too good to be true.