proot gets pretty painful with Node.js + Chromium on Android. How are people dealing with that?

I've been trying to run a heavier Linux userspace workload on Android, and proot keeps being the main performance bottleneck.

The slowdown becomes a lot more obvious with things like Node.js and Chromium than with lighter CLI tools.

I started experimenting with a ptrace-free approach for my own setup, but before I go too far with it, I wanted to ask whether others here have already explored similar workarounds or alternatives.