Set start method to forkserver for MacOS #3919
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As discussed in #3912 with @lucianopaz and @twiecki, this PR sets the start method to
forkserver
when the platform is MacOS. This is intended to solve #3849.As this is implemented in
setup.py
, the new start method is modified each time users import PyMC3, but it does it smoothly by usingmultiprocessing.get_context
instead ofmultiprocessing.set_start_method
. From the python docs:I did some raw tests locally and this does work!