R. David Murray added the comment: I'm not that familiar with multiprocessing, but I'd guess it was to avoid burning cpu in a busy-wait (it seems to me that that doesn't matter during finalization, but does during normal running). Maybe it could be changed to an event wait on a shutdown event?
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