Start the compile, eat dinner, go to bed, breakfast, go to school, eat lunch, done. Beats fighthing with a cross compiler toolchain for a one-off job by miles.
In the 90s I built a FreeBSD firewall using discarded PC parts. It took 10.5 hours to build world and kernel. There were 2 power outages that forced me to start over each time. I bought my first personal UPS to fix that problem. I would learn how to cross compile instead of waiting 12 hours.
At the moment this is the winning result of a competition (first person to run Qiii with the open source drivers at 1080x? At 20 fps) so there are further optimisations to be made.
Once the code has been tweaked there'll probably be an image for it somewhere.
And it's a one-shot thing, why make people compile the kernel at all?