Yeah, I read up on signals - my suggestion was useless because you use a direct connection and all signals emitted on such connections are executed without any delay. In addition, QByteArray is implicitly shared...

I do not see anything obvious to suggest. May be only trying this code:

Qt Code: 
  1. QDataStream *streamOut = new QDataStream(socket->readAll());
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But it'll probably change nothing.