M4L Multi-Threading Question

So I am wondering the best approach for multithreading in M4L.  My little APC40 Mouse device takes up a bunch of CPU cycles (probably due to the amount the aka.mouse object is called).  In a pure Max environment, I would probably use the deferlow object to keep processing of the mouse movement at lowest priority.  However, I am unsure if this would even make a difference with this device as the Max runtime seems to be within the process space of the Live environment.
In another programming language I would probably just spawn a new thread which leads me to think that I should create a Java object to create a thread to process these actions outside the context of Live (thus not using the aka.mouse object).
Is there are better way to do this so I can still use the aka.mouse object?  Is there a better way than creating a Java object?
Perhaps a tutorial on multi-threading in M4L would be sweet if someone has done this.
Cheers~ D