2nd option is usually the way to go and if it involves I/O operations 
dispatcher of thread-pool type will behave better than a fork-join.

HTH,

Guido.

On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 8:24:53 AM UTC+1, Thibault Meyer wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> what is the best way to proceed with blocking operation ?
>
>
> 1. Rise up the number of thread of the default-dispatcher  or change it to 
> fixed size thread pool?
>
> or
>
> 2. don't touch default values for default-dispatcher and use another 
> dispatcher (eg : my-blocking-dispatcher) with a fixed size thread pool?
>
>
>
> What is the criteria to determine if this is a blocking operation or not ? 
> By example, is this code blocking or not ?
>
>
> path(PathMatchers.segment("uuid-v4")
>                 .slash(PathMatchers.integerSegment()), count ->
>                 get(() -> {
>                     final Source<ByteString, ?> source = Source
>                         .fromIterator(
>                             () ->
>                                 Stream.generate(() ->
>                                     UUID.randomUUID().toString() + "\n"
>                                 ).iterator()
>                         )
>                         .map(ByteString::fromString)
>                         .take(count < 100000 ? count : 100000);
>                     return complete(HttpResponse.create()
>                         .withEntity(
>                             HttpEntities.createChunked(ContentTypes.
> TEXT_PLAIN_UTF8, source)
>                         )
>                     );
>                 })
>             ),
>
>
>
> Thanks
>

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