Your SBC (in my case a Raspberry Pi 3) is likely not the fastest machine in your collection. Thankfully, if you have a laptop or desktop you normally use, you can recruit it to assist your Raspberry Pi in compiling Arch Linux packages for itself. It is fairly easy to do with another Arch Linux machine, but a little tougher if you don't have one running that.
I have two laptops, a ThinkPad X250 running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC and an Apple MacBook. The X250's i7-5600U has a substantial amount more power than my MacBook, but runs Windows. This is not a big deal with the Windows Subsystem for Linux and distcc
, a distributed C compiler infrastructure.
For this to work, both computers must be on the same network and they must be able to talk to each other.