title: QtCreator performance on Windows
body: <p>I've finally managed to run the QtCreator debugger on Windows after struggling with the Comodo Firewall incompatibilities.</p>
  
  <p>I was hoping to switch from an older version of Qt and Visual C++ to the newest version of Qt and QtCreator, but the debugger performance is atrocious. </p>
  
  <p>I have created a simple GUI with one window that does nothing else but display the window. After starting up QtCreator takes ~60MB RAM (Private bytes in Sysinternals process explorer).</p>
  
  <p>When I start debugging, GDB is using 180MB. I start examining the main window pointer and it jumps to 313. Every time I try to inspect something, one of the cores jumps to 100% use and I have to wait for a few seconds for the information to show. This is just a toy program and I'm afraid that the real program that I want to switch will be much worse.</p>
  
  <p>Is this kind of performance normal for MinGW? Would changing to the latest MinGW release improve things?</p>
  
  <p>Visual C++ IDE + debugger + real-world program takes just close to 100MB of RAM and examining local variables is instantaneous.</p>