Well specifically Arch Linux, current kernel.

(1) Use multiple cores for compiling, or actually set the number of parallel jobs to run in the PKGBUILD file. See:

Speed up compiling of AUR packages!
byu/keyks inarchlinux

“…So I modified the PKGBUILD to use all my cores. Specifically the make statement, by adding -j <number of jobs> as an argument. After that I watched the percentage just fly to 100….”

Perhaps alias make=”make -j 12″ in ~/.bashrc would work…