Qt Creator debugger, very slow

[SPlatten]

The version of Qt Creator is out of my control it is what I'm issued with on this contract:

Qt Creator 4.2.1
Based on Qt 5.8.0 (MSVC 2015, 32 bit)
Built on Jan 20 2017 01:29:39
From revision 7071b61e02
Enterprise Features: Enabled

I'm finding that when the debugger stops at a break point it takes an extremely long time for the animation to stop and the watch windows to update with the current parameters.

I'm trying to debug a CPP application which has QML and calls from the QML to CPP functions. Is there anything I can do to improve the performance?

The development system isn't particularly special either:

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
Version: 10.0.16299 Build 16299
System Model: Latitude 5480
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300U CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2701 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 8GB
Total Physical Memory: 7.86 GB
Available Physical Memory: 2.76 GB
Total Virtual Memory: 9.18 GB
Available Virtual Memory: 2.83 GB
Page File Space: 1.31 GB

The hardware and operating system used are out of my control, however what I'm asking is are there any optimizations or settings that could help improve the performance?

[aha_1980]

@SPlatten

The version of Qt Creator is out of my control it is what I'm issued with on this contract:

Why? Creator is just a tool. The MSVC debugger improved a lot in the last versions, so upgrading might make sense.

Or try to compile with MinGW and use the GDB debugger. On Windows most often the better choice.

Regards

[kshegunov]

@SPlatten said in Qt Creator debugger, very slow:

I'm finding that when the debugger stops at a break point it takes an extremely long time for the animation to stop and the watch windows to update with the current parameters.

The microsoft console debugger (assuming this is what you're using) is the culprit. It's really slow, especially with big datasets. I've experienced a similar thing stepping into large codebases a couple of years back. Unfortunately, there's little you can do. If you can switch to mingw/gdb, as @aha_1980 suggested, you may see an improvement (I had).