Start jobs with different priorities

[SUPERCILEX]

Use case: I have a highly parallelized and computationally intensive series of jobs that completely saturate the default ForkJoinPool for a few dozen seconds. However, I want to notify the user of current progress via a ticker that uses delay. Currently, the ticker gets stuck waiting for all the other jobs to finish before it can proceed because the pool is saturated.

Workaround: create a seperate single thread dispatcher that does its own thing. This isn't a bad solution, but it took me a half-hour to figure out why the default dispatcher wasn't working.

[fvasco]

The workaround is not a workaround, it is a know issue.
#261 can help your use case.

The workaround is to use yield function sometimes to resume others coroutines.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23436125

[SUPERCILEX]

Oh I see, #79 should address this use case.

PS: I don't think #261 will affect me because I'm explicitly creating a new thread: Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1).asCoroutineDispatcher().