How does your iPhoto 9.5.1 compare for speed?

I have iPhoto 9.5.1 running on Mavericks, and it's very slow to launch. On average, it takes about 15 seconds to fill with images after the empty window opens.
An almost identical library set up in iPhoto 8.1.2 and running on Snow Leopard opens immediately.
The libraries are about 29,000 images and 390GB. 'Sharing' and 'Places' are both switched off. They run on identical external drives. The start up volume has 306GB free space, and the photo library volume has over 100GB free.
I've repaired permissions, rebuilt the thumbs, and repaired + rebuilt the database in iPhoto 9.5.1 without getting any improvement.
For comparison, I also use Aperture 3.5.1. This opens almost immediately, even if I set it to use the iPhoto library.
Is iPhoto 9.5.1 notoriously slow, or is there something wrong here? Does anyone using iPhoto 9.5.1 have it working a lot better than I do?
And if so, any ideas on what I can do to get it working faster?
(I'm using a 2009 MBP, 2.53GHz with 8GB RAM.)

I’ve been trying to live with iPhoto 9.5.1 for about a week now, hoping that eventually it would begin to speed up. But nothing is improving. It still takes an average of 15 seconds to load - sometimes over 20 seconds. The quickest has been 10 seconds, once or twice.
When I switch back to iPhoto 8.1.2, on Snow Leopard, everything happens immediately. That’s using a library configured in exactly the same way, with almost exactly the same number of images, using a 3 year old version of iPhoto that’s been superceded twice, on an operating system that has now been superceded three times.
You can see why I find iPhoto 9.5.1 so frustrating.
The only consolation is that the latest version of Aperture (3.5.1) seems to be even quicker than the version I was using on Snow Leopard - (3.2.4). And because I can now use it to view + edit the iPhoto library, I’ve realised I don’t need to use iPhoto itself anywhere near as much.
It’s a different way of working, but it does work. It’s just a pity that it seems to be the only practical way of using iPhoto 9.5.1. And it’s not much help if you don’t have Aperture.
I'd be very interested in any more feedback. If anyone else has got a similar size library to me, and is getting on better with this version of iPhoto, or if you have any other ideas on how to make it work quickly, please do let me know.

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