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	# Multithreading excels at taking tasks that would otherwise be run in sequence and making them run simultaneously.		# Multithreading excels at taking tasks that would otherwise be run in sequence and making them run simultaneously.
	# Due to the way the Papyrus scheduler must sync external calls to frames, many external calls can add a great deal of overhead (see [[http://www.creationkit.com/Threading_Notes_%28Papyrus%29 this page] on notes regarding how external calls suspend and resume threads); this pattern can greatly reduce the number of external function calls. I have personally seen performance over 10 times faster (an action that once took ~8.5 seconds to now takes ~0.5 seconds) in my own mods using this method.		# Due to the way the Papyrus scheduler must sync external calls to frames, many external calls can add a great deal of overhead (see [http://www.creationkit.com/Threading_Notes_%28Papyrus%29 this page] on notes regarding how external calls suspend and resume threads); this pattern can greatly reduce the number of external function calls. I have personally seen performance over 10 times faster (an action that once took ~8.5 seconds to now takes ~0.5 seconds) in my own mods using this method.