Understanding why these few lines are slow

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As the documentation says .

So make me correct, but isn't foreach loop something useful when iterating through the container holding pointers not entire objects, because in other way we use 2 times original_container_size amount of memory ?

It depends on the container. All Qt containers are implcitly shared so only a shallow copy of the container is made, the real data is not copied. If you create your own container (or use some 3rd party code) that doesn't share data between its copies then foreach will cause an immediate overhead in both memory and time because the container will have to be copied.