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+Performance Improvements
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+- Block validation can now prefetch input prevouts from the chainstate database
+  in parallel while connecting blocks, speeding up validation when prevouts need
+  to be read from disk. A new `-prevoutfetchthreads=<n>` option controls the
+  number of prefetch worker threads. The default is 8 threads, up to a maximum
+  of 16; set it to 0 to disable parallel prefetching. (#35295)