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I tried to make some tasks in parallel with qgis.

There is the test script

import concurrent.futures
import time, random               # add some random sleep time

offset = 2                        # you don't supply these so
output1 = list()
output2 = list()
output3 = list()
start = time.time()           # let's see how long this takes

# we can swap out ProcessPoolExecutor for ThreadPoolExecutor
with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
    for out1, out2, out3 in executor.map(procedure, range(0, 10)):
        # put results into correct output list
        output1.append(out1)
        output2.append(out2)
        output3.append(out3)
finish = time.time()
# these kinds of format strings are only available on Python 3.6:
# time to upgrade!
print(f'original inputs: {repr(output1)}')
print(f'total time to execute {sum(output2)} = sum({repr(output2)})')
print(f'time saved by parallelizing: {sum(output2) - (finish-start)}')
print(f'returned in order given: {repr(output3)}')

def calc_stuff(parameter=None):   # these are examples.
    sleep_time = random.choice([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
    time.sleep(sleep_time)
    return parameter / 2, sleep_time, parameter * parameter

def procedure(j):                 # just factoring out the
    parameter = j * offset        # procedure
    # call the calculation
    return calc_stuff(parameter=parameter)

This script doesn't behave as expected. Instead it launches 3 additional QGIS instances.