You may be able to optimise your code, but AFAIK, there's not a lot you can do in terms of dedicating more resources to a particular process in Windows except that in the task manager you can set it's priority to high or real time.
That's a manual process though, it may be automatable through some of the Win32 modules.
HTH
--Paul
Paul
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