I regularly compile big projects like Envoy Proxy, Bazel, CockroachDB, a bunch of Rust tools like ripgrep, bat, fd etc. on my RockPro64 without stability issues. Heatsink is key. I run Ayufan distro as the OS [0]. The additional cores and 4G RAM help with compilation speed a lot over the Rock64.

0. https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build