Photoshop, smart objects and dynamic filters performance issues

Hello,
I am quite new to Photoshop, after several years with Capture NX 2 to process thousands of NEF and RW2 files (RAW from Nikon and Panasonic).
I use Photoshop to read RAW pictures, convert them to a smart object, then apply several dynamic filters, mainly from the Nik Collection (Dfine, Color Efex Pro, Sharperner Pro), sometimes Topaz Denoise. I do that with actions, so I can batch process many pictures.
But sometimes I have to manually adjust some settings, and this where I do not really understand the way Photoshop works. If I have to adjust let say the last filter on the stack, Photoshop reprocesses all the filters below, which can be very tedious as this takes lot of time.
Is there a way to tell Photoshop to keep all intermediate data in memory, so if you have to adjust one of the last filters the process starts immediately?
Any help would be greatly appreciate.
Frederic.

Thank you Chris.
I am surprised, as for years there has been a lot of discussions about Capture NX2 which was supposed to be slow. In fact, when using the same filters (+ Nik Color Efex), NX2 is much much faster than Photoshop, and when you have to make an adjustment in any of the setttings, you can do that immediateley.
Of course, Photoshop is completely opened and NX2 totally closed (and now not supported anymore).
But, I really don't know how to adapt my workflow, except buying the most powerful PC possible (I already have 2 which are quite powerful), and this will still be far from being comfortable. I am used to tune manually many many pictures (adjust noise reduction, sharpening, light, colors ...), and this was quite fast with NX2.
I am probably not on the correct forum for this, and I will try to investigate elsewhere.
Anyhow, thank you for your answer.
Frédéric

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