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by zoltrain 3194 days ago
Gulp runs in node, which runs single core so compilation speed will be effected by single core speed. I'm not really that familiar with how "Parallel" msbuild/roselyn is these days in regards to core usage. I'm pretty sure Roselyn/Visual Studio does some very clever stuff when compiling your code. I think it keeps a shadow copy of your on disk files and only recompiles the AST sections it needs too. I remember watching a talk on how Anders reimagined the .net compiler to approach compilation this way. You should probably look at other multi-core workloads you might be doing on the dev machine that would benefit from the increased core count.
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Afaik, we're using gulp with some paralellization plugins.