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    Since you explicitly mentioned the use of external: you can configure the external library to run in mode=list and make. The resulting makefile can be processed in parallel using make -j 8 -f <file>.makefile (in this case on 8 threads). Only feasible if you can resort to make, though... Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 14:12
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    Note that the keyword "external library" means that this question is no duplicate. Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 14:13
  • What OS are you using? At least on UNIX-like systems it may be enough to end the command line passed to \write18 with an ampersand character (&) to have the shell spawn a new process for the external command. Commented Nov 21, 2013 at 13:20
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    Could you give a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem, in particular, allows us to experiment with your method of "compiling a bunch of PGFplots"? Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 13:45
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    @StephanLehmke your feature request with asynchronous processing sounds interesting; but I fear that it would easily run out-of-control unless you restrict the number of background processes. And that, in turn, sounds like a very complicated method in TeX ... compiling twice would be simple. If you want to experiment with the code; feel free to do so. Commented Dec 25, 2013 at 14:30