[Kevin Phan]

If you are constantly doing small tweaks I would suggest you look into using the dashboard to tell the robot how much to do its task. The risk with using this is the probability of the value being lost. It is minimal, but the more you pack into the dashboard, the more bandwidth you're using and could lag input. Again if you want to reduce build time, you could use a better cpu, or place all the values you are changing in one vi so that labview doesn't have to rebuild every vi. I used the robot global vi to do this and it's very convenient.

I also agree with Alan about using the robot main vi to make the small changes in testing and then building and deploying after you are satisfied with the results.