I/O Dispatchers
Learn about I/O dispatchers and how they work with a custom or fixed pool of threads.
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The Dispatchers.IO dispatcher is designed to be used when we block threads with I/O operations—for instance, when we read/write files, use Android shared preferences, or call blocking functions. The code below takes around one second because Dispatchers.IO simultaneously allows more than 50 active threads.
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