Parallel downloads are available, albeit via a 3rd party tool, `Powerpill` [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;powerpill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;powerpill</a><p>Personally though, I&#x27;ve never had an issue with the performance of `pacman`. Even without parallel downloads I&#x27;ve found `pacman` generally outperforms most other package management tools I&#x27;ve used.