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Use process->start instead of process->run to allow a group of processes to run in parallel.
Depending on the system bottleneck and number of wikis selected, this can make setting up a wiki much faster.
When checking out repos, some are dependent on others, so core and VE-MW are run synchronously.
Locally, with all repos update to date, a WMF wiki goes from taking 83s to 37s.
In production, WMF wikis currently take about 132s when all repos are up to date.