The first compilation using my old IBM T43 notebook took about 45 minutes to complete the process. For the second compilation after having enabled g729 option, it took less time to do, it was around ten minutes.
You do not need to do so. You may shorten the developed by just modify the settings in the "make menuconfig" and then make it agin and followed by make image. That's all, the totoal time for these remakes took you about 10 minutes. It is pretty fast and not time consuming.
Since the initial setup for the Analogue blackfin development environment is completed, the next task is to study the way of writing simple programming code such as flashing the l.e.d on the IP01 box.