title: Can I make maven-assembly-plugin go faster?
body: <p>I have a maven multi-module project.  The final goal wraps up all the libraries, etc., that we build in a tarball and RPM for distribution.  This goal uses the maven-assembly-plugin, and it takes <em>forever</em> -- usually a quarter to a half of our total build time.</p>
  
  <p>I think we're already telling Maven to run multithreaded (though I'm not positive, and don't know how to check).  Is there any other optimization I can do to make unpacking / repacking go faster?  Is it just a matter of using a beefier machine?  Our project doesn't seem <em>that</em> big (end result is ~70-80 MB) but it takes well over a minute just for that one phase.</p>