Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

CoroutineDispatcher

CoroutineDispatcher is an abstract implementation of ContinuationInterceptor that is used for the implementation of all the provided dispatchers, such as CommonPool, Unconfined, and DefaultDispatcher. Let's look at its code:

public abstract class CoroutineDispatcher :        AbstractCoroutineContextElement(ContinuationInterceptor),         ContinuationInterceptor {    open fun isDispatchNeeded(context: CoroutineContext): Boolean = true    abstract fun dispatch(context: CoroutineContext, block: Runnable)    override fun <T> interceptContinuation(continuation: Continuation<T>):         Continuation<T> = DispatchedContinuation(this, continuation)    public operator fun plus(other: CoroutineDispatcher) = other override fun toString(): String = "$classSimpleName@$hexAddress" ...