Hello, I have just two core machine, so I can not check it. But what I think GNU Make still not spawns only one process when compiling code.
In fact from my understanding of GCC there is no any objections to compile files in parallel. Compiler parses header files independently for each compilation unit so there is no any problem to spawn compiler on each core. So building Debian on AMD Threadripper could be in theory 128 times faster. Marek.