diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index aaccc3b6..9f5f9006 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - TARGET_PLATFORM=ubuntu
         - GIT_LFS_CHECKSUM=89f5aa2c29800bbb71f5d4550edd69c5f83e3ee9e30f770446436dd7f4ef1d4c
+      arch: amd64
     - os: osx
       language: c
       env:
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - TARGET_PLATFORM=arm64
         - GIT_LFS_CHECKSUM=ea628d95158d5c76d9c7fe9432f28e49cc1a1b7ae3928b7089b1f4f97748d7a0
+      arch: arm64
 compiler:
   - gcc
 script:
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ branches:
   only:
     - master
     - /^v[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0.9]*.*$/
+cache: ccache
 deploy:
   provider: releases
   api_key: $GITHUB_TOKEN
diff --git a/docker/arm64/Dockerfile b/docker/arm64/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e494a23..00000000
--- a/docker/arm64/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# currently tagged on Docker Hub as shiftkey/dugite-native:arm64-jessie-git-with-curl
-FROM multiarch/debian-debootstrap:arm64-jessie
-
-RUN apt-get update
-RUN apt-get install -y \
-    build-essential \
-    autoconf \
-    libexpat-dev \
-    curl \
-    zlib1g-dev \
-    libssl-dev \
-    gettext
-
-ENV CURL_INSTALL_DIR "/tmp/build/curl"
-ENV CURL_VERSION "curl-7.61.1"
-
-# extract curl to temp directory
-RUN mkdir -p $CURL_INSTALL_DIR
-WORKDIR /tmp
-RUN curl -LO "https://curl.haxx.se/download/$CURL_VERSION.tar.gz"
-RUN tar -xf "$CURL_VERSION.tar.gz"
-
-# configure and install curl
-WORKDIR $CURL_VERSION
-RUN ./configure --prefix=$CURL_INSTALL_DIR
-RUN make install
-
-#cleanup
-WORKDIR /tmp
-RUN rm -rf "$CURL_VERSION.tar.gz"
-RUN rm -rf "$CURL_VERSION"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/script/build-arm64-git.sh b/script/build-arm64-git.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5a3eebbf..00000000
--- a/script/build-arm64-git.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-#
-# Compiling Git for ARM64 Linux (should be run inside a container)
-
-if [[ -z "${SOURCE}" ]]; then
-  echo "Required environment variable SOURCE was not set"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ -z "${DESTINATION}" ]]; then
-  echo "Required environment variable DESTINATION was not set"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ -z "${CURL_INSTALL_DIR}" ]]; then
-  echo "Required environment variable CURL_INSTALL_DIR was not set"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-echo " -- Building git at $SOURCE to $DESTINATION"
-
-cd "$SOURCE" || exit 1
-make clean
-make configure
-CC='gcc' \
-  CFLAGS='-Wall -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE' \
-  LDFLAGS='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro' \
-  CURL_CONFIG="$CURL_INSTALL_DIR/bin/curl-config" \
-  ./configure \
-  --with-curl="$CURL_INSTALL_DIR" \
-  --prefix=/
-
-DESTDIR="$DESTINATION" \
-    NO_PERL=1 \
-    NO_TCLTK=1 \
-    NO_GETTEXT=1 \
-    NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS=1 \
-    NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=1 \
-    make strip install
-
-echo "-- Removing server-side programs"
-rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-cvsserver"
-rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-receive-pack"
-rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-upload-archive"
-rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-upload-pack"
-rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-shell"
-
-echo "-- Removing unsupported features"
-rm "$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core/git-svn"
-rm "$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core/git-remote-testsvn"
-rm "$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core/git-p4"
-chmod 777 "$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core"
diff --git a/script/build-arm64.sh b/script/build-arm64.sh
index 4648fb73..02491f0d 100755
--- a/script/build-arm64.sh
+++ b/script/build-arm64.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
 #
-# Building Git for ARM64 Linux and bundling Git LFS from upstream.
+# Compiling Git for Linux and bundling Git LFS from upstream.
 #
 
+
 if [[ -z "${SOURCE}" ]]; then
   echo "Required environment variable SOURCE was not set"
   exit 1
@@ -18,29 +19,48 @@ if [[ -z "${CURL_INSTALL_DIR}" ]]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-if [[ -z "${BASEDIR}" ]]; then
-  echo "Required environment variable BASEDIR was not set"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-
 CURRENT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 # shellcheck source=script/compute-checksum.sh
 source "$CURRENT_DIR/compute-checksum.sh"
 # shellcheck source=script/check-static-linking.sh
 source "$CURRENT_DIR/check-static-linking.sh"
 
-mkdir -p "$DESTINATION"
+# Missing on arm64
+sudo apt-get install gettext
+
+echo " -- Building vanilla curl at $CURL_INSTALL_DIR instead of distro-specific version"
 
-docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --reset
-docker run -it \
---mount type=bind,source="$BASEDIR",target="$BASEDIR" \
---mount type=bind,source="$DESTINATION",target="$DESTINATION" \
--e "SOURCE=$SOURCE" \
--e "DESTINATION=$DESTINATION" \
--e "CURL_INSTALL_DIR=$CURL_INSTALL_DIR" \
--w="$BASEDIR" \
---rm shiftkey/dugite-native:arm64-jessie-git-with-curl bash "$BASEDIR/script/build-arm64-git.sh"
+CURL_FILE_NAME="curl-7.61.1"
+CURL_FILE="$CURL_FILE_NAME.tar.gz"
+
+cd /tmp || exit 1
+curl -LO "https://curl.haxx.se/download/$CURL_FILE"
+tar -xf $CURL_FILE
+
+(
+cd $CURL_FILE_NAME || exit 1
+./configure --prefix="$CURL_INSTALL_DIR"
+make install -j "$(nproc)"
+)
+echo " -- Building git at $SOURCE to $DESTINATION"
+
+(
+cd "$SOURCE" || exit 1
+make clean
+make configure
+CC='gcc' \
+  CFLAGS='-Wall -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE' \
+  LDFLAGS='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro' \
+  ./configure \
+  --with-curl="$CURL_INSTALL_DIR" \
+  --prefix=/
+DESTDIR="$DESTINATION" \
+  NO_TCLTK=1 \
+  NO_GETTEXT=1 \
+  NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS=1 \
+  NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=1 \
+  make strip install -j "$(nproc)"
+)
 
 if [[ "$GIT_LFS_VERSION" ]]; then
   echo "-- Bundling Git LFS"
@@ -82,13 +102,36 @@ if [[ ! -f "$DESTINATION/ssl/cacert.pem" ]]; then
   echo "-- Skipped bundling of CA certificates (failed to download them)"
 fi
 
-echo "-- Verifying environment"
-docker run -it \
-  --mount type=bind,source="$BASEDIR",target="$BASEDIR" \
-  --mount type=bind,source="$DESTINATION",target="$DESTINATION" \
-  -e "DESTINATION=$DESTINATION" \
-  -w="$BASEDIR" \
-  --rm shiftkey/dugite-native:arm64-jessie-git-with-curl sh "$BASEDIR/script/verify-arm64-git.sh"
+
+echo "-- Removing server-side programs"
+rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-cvsserver"
+rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-receive-pack"
+rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-upload-archive"
+rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-upload-pack"
+rm "$DESTINATION/bin/git-shell"
+
+echo "-- Removing unsupported features"
+rm "$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core/git-svn"
+rm "$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core/git-remote-testsvn"
+rm "$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core/git-p4"
 
 echo "-- Static linking research"
 check_static_linking "$DESTINATION"
+
+echo "-- Testing clone operation with generated binary"
+
+rm -rf "$CURL_OUTPUT_DIR"
+
+TEMP_CLONE_DIR=/tmp/clones
+mkdir -p $TEMP_CLONE_DIR
+
+(
+cd "$DESTINATION/bin" || exit 1
+./git --version
+GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 \
+  GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR="$DESTINATION/share/git-core/templates" \
+  GIT_SSL_CAINFO="$DESTINATION/ssl/cacert.pem" \
+  GIT_EXEC_PATH="$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core" \
+  PREFIX="$DESTINATION" \
+  ./git clone https://github.com/git/git.github.io "$TEMP_CLONE_DIR/git.github.io"
+)
diff --git a/script/build-ubuntu.sh b/script/build-ubuntu.sh
index 6ded0d23..f9f1f17c 100755
--- a/script/build-ubuntu.sh
+++ b/script/build-ubuntu.sh
@@ -131,4 +131,4 @@ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 \
   GIT_EXEC_PATH="$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core" \
   PREFIX="$DESTINATION" \
   ./git clone https://github.com/git/git.github.io "$TEMP_CLONE_DIR/git.github.io"
-)
\ No newline at end of file
+)
diff --git a/script/generate-travis-config.ts b/script/generate-travis-config.ts
index 448cf780..7eec8e17 100644
--- a/script/generate-travis-config.ts
+++ b/script/generate-travis-config.ts
@@ -81,12 +81,14 @@ function getConfig(platform: string, arch: string) {
         os: 'linux',
         language: 'c',
         env: ['TARGET_PLATFORM=ubuntu', `GIT_LFS_CHECKSUM=${lfsFile.checksum}`],
+        arch: 'amd64',
       }
     } else if (arch === 'arm64') {
       return {
         os: 'linux',
         language: 'c',
         env: ['TARGET_PLATFORM=arm64', `GIT_LFS_CHECKSUM=${lfsFile.checksum}`],
+        arch: 'arm64',
       }
     }
   }
@@ -133,6 +135,7 @@ const baseConfig = {
   branches: {
     only: ['master', '/^v[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0.9]*.*$/'],
   },
+  cache: 'ccache',
   deploy: {
     provider: 'releases',
     api_key: '$GITHUB_TOKEN',
diff --git a/script/verify-arm64-git.sh b/script/verify-arm64-git.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 15f0f029..00000000
--- a/script/verify-arm64-git.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-#
-# Verify Git for ARM64 Linux (should be run inside a container)
-
-if [[ -z "${DESTINATION}" ]]; then
-  echo "Required environment variable DESTINATION was not set"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "-- Test external Git LFS"
-
-"$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core/git-lfs" --version
-
-echo "-- Test clone operation with generated binary"
-
-TEMP_CLONE_DIR=/tmp/clones
-mkdir -p $TEMP_CLONE_DIR
-
-(
-cd "$DESTINATION/bin" || exit 1
-./git --version
-GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 \
-  GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR="$DESTINATION/share/git-core/templates" \
-  GIT_SSL_CAINFO="$DESTINATION/ssl/cacert.pem" \
-  GIT_EXEC_PATH="$DESTINATION/libexec/git-core" \
-  PREFIX="$DESTINATION" \
-  ./git clone https://github.com/git/git.github.io "$TEMP_CLONE_DIR/git.github.io"
-)