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Originally Posted by slavik262

In terms of performance, a single thread will run faster since the cRIO is a single-core processor and less threads cause less time to be spent on context switching.

This is a too simplistic view of the issue.
Yes, there is some weight associated context switching.
But if a single thread polls for some event for even 3 milliseconds, that wasted time is nowhere near recovered by avoiding context switches.