IIRC, unless you explicitly state otherwise, Celery forks for every task. A lot of task queues do this because it becomes a lot easier to recovery from errors.

IIRC, unless you explicitly state otherwise, Celery forks for every task. A lot of task queues do this because it becomes a lot easier to recovery from errors. Multiprocessing makes it pretty straight-forward to manage inter-process communication with queues, but you'd have to write all the other stuff task queues handle for you, such as error management.