1. A method of prioritizing formatting actions of a number of data formatters, comprising: instantiating a number of threads for execution by a processing system, the number of threads sharing thread processing resources, and the number of threads including at least two threads of dissimilar priority; launching a number of data formatters on the number of threads, the number of data formatters including at least two data formatters that are respectively launched on ones of the at least two threads having dissimilar priorities; and periodically requesting allocation of the thread processing resources for a number of highest priority active threads, wherein an active thread is a thread executing a data formatter with formatting actions to perform.