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| 1 | +/* |
| 2 | + * Copyright 2016-2023 JetBrains s.r.o. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license. |
| 3 | + */ |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +package kotlinx.coroutines |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +/** |
| 8 | + * The [CoroutineDispatcher] that is designed for offloading blocking IO tasks to a shared pool of threads. |
| 9 | + * Additional threads in this pool are created on demand. |
| 10 | + * Default IO pool size is `64`; on JVM it can be configured using JVM-specific mechanisms, |
| 11 | + * please refer to `Dispatchers.IO` documentation on JVM platform. |
| 12 | + * |
| 13 | + * ### Elasticity for limited parallelism |
| 14 | + * |
| 15 | + * `Dispatchers.IO` has a unique property of elasticity: its views |
| 16 | + * obtained with [CoroutineDispatcher.limitedParallelism] are |
| 17 | + * not restricted by the `Dispatchers.IO` parallelism. Conceptually, there is |
| 18 | + * a dispatcher backed by an unlimited pool of threads, and both `Dispatchers.IO` |
| 19 | + * and views of `Dispatchers.IO` are actually views of that dispatcher. In practice |
| 20 | + * this means that, despite not abiding by `Dispatchers.IO`'s parallelism |
| 21 | + * restrictions, its views share threads and resources with it. |
| 22 | + * |
| 23 | + * In the following example |
| 24 | + * ``` |
| 25 | + * // 100 threads for MySQL connection |
| 26 | + * val myMysqlDbDispatcher = Dispatchers.IO.limitedParallelism(100) |
| 27 | + * // 60 threads for MongoDB connection |
| 28 | + * val myMongoDbDispatcher = Dispatchers.IO.limitedParallelism(60) |
| 29 | + * ``` |
| 30 | + * the system may have up to `64 + 100 + 60` threads dedicated to blocking tasks during peak loads, |
| 31 | + * but during its steady state there is only a small number of threads shared |
| 32 | + * among `Dispatchers.IO`, `myMysqlDbDispatcher` and `myMongoDbDispatcher` |
| 33 | + */ |
| 34 | +@Suppress("EXTENSION_SHADOWED_BY_MEMBER") |
| 35 | +public expect val Dispatchers.IO: CoroutineDispatcher |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | + |
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