Why does lzma hangs for a very long time when run in parallel using python's muptiprocessing module?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:21 AM, cantor cantor <cantormath2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to run lzma in parallel (see the code below) it hangs for a very
> long time. The non-parallel version of the code using map() works fine as
> shown in the code below.

Confirmed that your code does indeed hang as you describe, but I can't
help much with the details. I poked around with it a bit but without
finding much of use. Sorry. :(

ChrisA