diff --git a/src/qmldom/qqmldomconstants_p.h b/src/qmldom/qqmldomconstants_p.h
index 5307fc8076..8e8b17279e 100644
--- a/src/qmldom/qqmldomconstants_p.h
+++ b/src/qmldom/qqmldomconstants_p.h
@@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ Q_ENUM_NS(FileLocationRegion);
 enum DomCreationOption : char {
     Default, // required by qmlformat for example
     Extended, // required by qmlls for example
+    Minimal, // required by QmlDocumentParser in Qt Design Studio, for example
 };
 
 } // end namespace Dom
diff --git a/src/qmldom/qqmldomtop.cpp b/src/qmldom/qqmldomtop.cpp
index 36dc42fd5b..50e01cff58 100644
--- a/src/qmldom/qqmldomtop.cpp
+++ b/src/qmldom/qqmldomtop.cpp
@@ -2241,6 +2241,10 @@ void DomEnvironment::populateFromQmlFile(MutableDomItem &&qmlFile)
             Q_UNUSED(this); // note: integrity requires "this" to be in the capture list, while
                             // other compilers complain about "this" being unused in the lambda
             AST::Node::accept(qmlFilePtr->ast(), visitor);
+
+            if (m_domCreationOption == DomCreationOption::Minimal)
+                return;
+
             CommentCollector collector(qmlFile);
             collector.collectComments();
         };
diff --git a/tests/benchmarks/qml/qmldom/tst_qmldomconstruction.cpp b/tests/benchmarks/qml/qmldom/tst_qmldomconstruction.cpp
index 2a53a6dcb4..3e6e02b5f0 100644
--- a/tests/benchmarks/qml/qmldom/tst_qmldomconstruction.cpp
+++ b/tests/benchmarks/qml/qmldom/tst_qmldomconstruction.cpp
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ void tst_qmldomconstruction::domConstructionTime_data()
 
     QTest::addRow("extended-tiger.qml") << baseDir + u"/longQmlFile.qml"_s << Extended;
     QTest::addRow("extended-deeplyNested.qml") << baseDir + u"/deeplyNested.qml"_s << Extended;
+
+    QTest::addRow("minimal-tiger.qml") << baseDir + u"/longQmlFile.qml"_s << Minimal;
+    QTest::addRow("minimal-deeplyNested.qml") << baseDir + u"/deeplyNested.qml"_s << Minimal;
 }
 
 void tst_qmldomconstruction::domConstructionTime()