This is not about multithreading, but about using multiple processes for parallelization. As such, both the library and the title of this article are misnamed.

This is not about multithreading, but about using multiple processes for parallelization. As such, both the library and the title of this article are misnamed. Still. Having a simple library to do the fork dance and provide some synchronization between subprocesses can be very helpful for, say, long-running import scripts. At least that's what I actually consider using this for.