IPhoto open with app running in Rosetta - super slow

Hey, just wondering if this is normal, or if it's something I should be looking into. I had Suitcase X1 open today and noticed my iPhoto running excruciatingly slow...could barely get it to open. I opened my app monitor and noticed that everything on my iMac was Intel except for Suitcase which was using Rosetta. So, just for trial and error, I quit that app and viola, iPhoto was fine. Has anyone noticed this? Is this something that Rosetta does? The odd thing is that iPhoto was the only app with any noticeable performance decrease. I also had Photoshop open and that was fine, as well as Safari. It just seemed to be iPhoto. Is this a problem that's common? I tried to locate something about it and could find nothing. Thanks for the help.

You know, I just went and tried to repeat it and couldn't. I used iPhoto and it was fine. I then went and launched Suitcase and it was still fine. So, with that in mind, the only thing I can come up with is, perhaps the file I had opened in Photoshop was consuming a lot of resources and those were making iPhoto lag...perhaps it wasn't Suitcase/Rosetta at all. Weird that it seemed to cure it when I quit it, but perhaps that was just coincidental. Thanks for suggesting that I try to recreate it, to see if that was the problem or not.

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