NPM has gotten faster over the last few years. When Yarn first came out it was dramatically faster than NPM. NPM 5 then caught up with Yarn 1 on performance, an

NPM has gotten faster over the last few years. When Yarn first came out it was dramatically faster than NPM. NPM 5 then caught up with Yarn 1 on performance, and NPM 7 is often faster than Yarn 1. NPM has not caught up with Yarn 2, but Yarn 2 had to break a lot more things than NPM is willing to break.