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# Multithreading plug-ins

This section presents the use of threads in Maya plug-ins, including possible threading obstacles, resolutions, and benchmark results.

#### Topics in this section

- Introduction
- Data and Task Parallelism
- Threads
- Locks
- OpenMP
- Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
- Threading Challenges
- Memory allocation
- Threading and Maya
- Other types of parallelism
- Python threading and Maya
- Third party tools
- API Classes and plug-ins
- Mac OS X platform specific pthreads issues
- Vendor-specific OpenMP Issues