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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions BUILDING.md
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Expand Up @@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ $ ./configure
$ make -j4
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We can speed up the builds by using [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/). For more
information, see
[Building Node.js with Ninja](doc/contributing/building-node-with-ninja.md).

The `-j4` option will cause `make` to run 4 simultaneous compilation jobs which
may reduce build time. For more information, see the
[GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html).
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Expand Up @@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ test suite. To run the tests (including code linting) on Unix / macOS:
./configure && make -j4 test
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We can speed up the builds by using [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/). For more
information, see
[Building Node.js with Ninja](building-node-with-ninja.md).

And on Windows:

```text
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