Aperture 3 very slow on lion

running on my macbook pro 2.66 ghz core 2 duo with 4 MB of ram, aperture 3 was lightning-fast in snow leopard, now is mud-slow in lion. as in *unbelievably* slow. is a fix coming?
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I had taken the route, over time, of installing Lipn, ontop of SL, ontop of Leopard -- after the upgrade to Lion, Aperture became painfully sluggish. After scouring user forums and a lot of Google searching, I found the one suggestion where you delete cache from a couple directores and a .plist from Aperture. No real difference.
Finally, after, what I would assume to be frustration and morbid curiosity, I used Onyx's automation clean up tools (checked everything but reindex Spotlight), and went the route of trashing my preferences. Full contents.
Long story short, Aperture is in the process of importing and processing about 59k photos and remaining much much more responsive. Instead of taking 36 hrs to complete like before, it's on track to complete everything in about 6.
Lion, as a whole, also seems snappier.
We'll see what happens when Aperture completes processing, but I am a lot more optimistic. I suppose should THAT fail, i'll go the clean-install route.
But, yeah, installing OS ontop of OS ontop of OS is never a good idea, no matter what anyone says -- you wind up with some cross tangled schmutz...
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