Qt creator debug mode is really slow

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My case is I\'m using Qt 5.5 with Qt creator 3.5 on a Windows 10 machine. It takes about 10 to 15 seconds to start debugging my p

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I have been experiencing very slow debugging with Windows 10 Professional, Qt 5.5.1 and Qt Creator 3.5.1, using CDB. It was pretty much unusable. I discovered that the windows debug symbols take a very long time to load. When I go directly to the windows symbol server, it takes minutes. So, I downloaded the windows symbols from here: Windows Symbol Packages

I installed the symbols then setup the CDB symbol path in Qt Creator. It's very snappy now.