I think I've seen this question here before ...
Thinking outside the box: are you by chance wasting precious electrons by using recursive make, i.e. Where rules cd into subdirectories and call make again? Then that is your problem.
A nonrecursive make can be faster by 2 orders of magnitude.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.