2nd Display: does it slow things down?

This could be a really stupid question, so bear with me -- does the addition of a second screen to the imac duo slow the machine down? I have noticed that Aperture isn't quite as zippy, and I suspect it's a simple lack of VRAM because of the other monitor...
True?

All other things being equal, and the VRAM already being higly used, it seems perfectly logical that adding a secondary display would slow things down. Extra trips to main memory to fetch things that don't fit into VRAM do take time. No idea how noticeable this performance hit would be though/how much load would be required to make it noticeable.

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