Can you overload iTunes w/too much music?

I have over 21000 tracks in my iTunes library, and I'm wondering if there is an upper limit of how many tracks iTunes can handle? My question is not regarding storage - I have an external drive with tons of space. My question is regarding the program itself - in recent months I have noticed that the program is running more and more slowly. It does not crash, but it tends to "think" more. Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm also trying to determine how large of a library iTunes can handle and how large some of the largest libraries out there are. I am currently running 46,000 items in my main library on the internal drive (total size around 340Gigs) and am having no problems at all with it. I have a couple of other separate libraries totaling around another 150GB that I'd like to combine with my main one currently at 340GB which would bring me up to about 500GB but have some concerns about how a library that big would perform.
I recently upgraded my 5 year old 1GHz iMac to a new 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme iMac with 2GB ram, mostly because my growing iTunes library was too much of a drag on the slower processor. Clearly the bigger the library the more processor power and ram you need.
I run my library off my internal 750GB drive and use Apple Backup to back up the entire internal drive weekly to a 1TB external drive, so I always have a recent copy in case of drive failure.
I'd like to know anecdotally how large other people's extra large libraries are -- is anyone successfully running libraries bigger than 500GB, 700GB, 1TB?? I imagine there are mega users out there or possibly people using iTunes for commercial or professional applications that require jumbo libraries.

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