When importing 3D assets with a lot of baked in textures, QImage::save takes significant amount of time. E.g. importing asset with 40MB of textures takes over 10s compressing the pngs. This quickly becomes tiresome if you are doing small tweaks to the asset and reimporting it often. 

QSSGAssetImportManager::importFile should provide an option to specify a list of files that we don't need to import and importer then skips save/file generation tasks related to those files that are not required to generate other non-skipped files.