A faster processor and more memory will always help with operations like this.
This reminds me of a job I did many years ago for a car manufacturer. It was to compile diagnostics for a range of vehicles onto a CD-ROM, all the various files, text, images and code had to be copied into a suitable directory structure, checked for errors, then, if all was ok, written to a CD-ROM. Note that this was in the days when a CD-ROM writer cost a lot of money. As I was the external consultant I got the slowest PC in the department, a 386 machine, while pointy haired bosses had the new and just released Pentium machines.
If the build process completed it took 14 hours! Needless to say progress was rather slow, it took a couple of weeks for the powers that be to realise that this attitude was costing them a lot of money, so reluctantly I was assigned one of the new shiny Pentium machines, build now took 2 hours.