Nirmal Sasidharan

@AA-Turner I agree. Since Python `multiprocessing` is a true multi-processing library, we do not need to replace it outright. It will be good to find out why the above behaviour...

Thanks @danwos for the detailed issue description. ## Current Problem Yes, multi-processing is a huge issue for us as it doesn't seem to be implemented with scalability in focus. Here...

@AA-Turner Thanks for your feedback. We have projects with more than 70k rST files to process. We internally optimized the sphinx multi-process read such that 30k files can be read...

As an issue I mentioned as a [comment above](https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/11448#issuecomment-1576492855) seems to get lost in the pool of other nice suggestions here, I created a separate issue for it https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/12808