I have a dual core dev machine. Using -j 2 builds twice as fast (approx 35 mins -> 17 mins). Are current compiles really obligatory single thread? Because I sure would like to prop up intel with my wallet.
But it is also like 10 times faster than other compilers.
the compilation definitely has parallelism.
The code is all async by default and that is easy to load onto green threads.
This used to be implemented with callback hell, now it's Promises which is actually really cosy (and what Rust is adopting).
Random article I found on it: https://medium.com/better-programming/is-node-js-really-sing...
Both AMD and Intel are ridiculously fast! You can't really go wrong with either.