Now, as we already know what kinds of tools can be used for profiling, there will come a time when we will have to get our hands dirty and delve deeper into typical performance optimization work. For you to be able to reproduce it, we have to agree on the exact versions of our frameworks and tools. To make it short, we've decided on the following:
- Qt 5.9 LTE
- Windows 10
- Open source tools
This warrants some explanation, so read on. Let's start with the Qt framework.
Qt has many different versions and releases, but in this book, we have chosen to concentrate on the current (at the time of writing) long-term support (LTS) version, namely Qt 5.9—as it's the recent most stable release. Admittedly, a preview version of Qt 5.11 was present in the distribution, but we have, much to my regret, to ignore it.
Qt is a multiplatform framework; it...