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[martinuzz]

I just noticed, while playing hermit challenge: Dwarves multitask, and probably as bad as old windows versions (they pretend to multitask but actually don't).

Even though my lone dwarf was busy making some rock coffins, there was an item tasked for hauling in the kitchen. He finished the coffins first, then proceeded to haul the item. All this time, the item remained tasked.
This is very inefficient. If I had more dwarves, this could have meant that one dwarf would idly pick his nose, because the item he could haul was already tasked for hauling by another dwarf. Only, that other dwarf had to carve 8 coffins first before hauling.

[Satarus]

Thats why you turn hauling jobs off of your full time workers.  That way they keep making stuff and don't waste time hauling.

[golden joe]

What does a hermit need coffins for?

[Stargrasper]

What does a hermit need coffins for?

The other six dwarves.  How do you think he got to be a hermit?

The inefficiency is really just shotty optimization on the game's part.  Toady will fix it sooner or later.  Generally, the game tasks things to idle dwarves and if none are available, it seems to retask it to the first appropriate dwarf to become available...it presumably isn't enough of a problem to optimize now.  This is especially true when you consider that DF is technically in alpha stages.  How often do you optimize your alpha?

[martinuzz]

He prefers to be alone (actually in his description)
There's already 28 filled coffins now. I get migrants almost every season, however horrible I kill em.
Also, the RNG gave this fort a very appropriate name: The Doors of Slaughter

[IronBeer]

How often do you optimize your alpha?

I find this question funny, for a reason I don't know.

[Itnetlolor]

What does a hermit need coffins for?

Riding down the side of a mountain like a toboggan?

[Shurhaian]

Regarding the OP - I'm not sure you have the correct notion of how tasks are assigned. Yes, that item was tasked to be hauled, but it wasn't tasked to be hauled BY THAT DWARF(beyond that being the only dwarf left). It would've kept sitting there, waiting for a dwarf to become available who had the requisite hauling labors on, and then grabbed that dwarf to do it. The hauler would not have been stuck doing nothing while the other dwarf finished carving coffins.

For that matter, I've had dwarves put down their workshop duties and go haul. Doesn't seem to happen as often, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it without bio interruptions.