Accelerated Installer performance

What is the benefit? Why is this valuable?

Qt Installer takes long time to load & install content which causes frustration for the user.

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What are common use cases?

• Clean install: Install Qt for the first time
• Check if there are updates available
• Update or add new components to the existing installation

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Technical information

Multiple steps are involved in the install: Fetching Content, Loading Component Scripts, Downloading packages, Preparing to unpack component, Unpacking components etc. All of these should be analysed.

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Deliverables

• Deterministic test environment for measuring installation performance
• Documented measurements where time is currently spent and improvement areas analysed
• New targets set for great UX in terms of user perceived performance

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