[issue5001] Remove assertion-based checking in multiprocessing

[drallensmith]

drallensmith added the comment:

I've updated the PR to include all of the non-Windows-specific asserts; I am not sufficiently familiar with Windows multiprocessing to feel confident writing informative error messages.

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