Keystroke delay in Mail.app when autosaving

This is a very obnoxious problem I'm having in Mail.app.  Apologies if it's been addressed elsewhere; kindly point me in the right direction if so.
First, off:  the specs. 
2011 unibody Macbook Pro, 2.3 Ghz Core i5, 8GB RAM.
Running Mountain Lion, 10.8.1
Since installing Mountain Lion, Mail.app has had an intolerable keystroke delay whenever it tries to autosave a message.  Which seems to happen about every 15 seconds or so.  What will happen is I'll type for a while and then Mail will freeze up for a few seconds while it autosaves the message.  When it resumes, I've usually lost everything I've typed during the time when it's frozen.
It's beyond obnoxious.  It's intolerable.  I've searched around to see if others have had a similar problem, and haven't found much.  I've dug around in the preferences to see if there's an autosave setting with no luck.  No idea what's causing it.
I'm about at the point where I'm considering abandoning Mail.app entirely for a third-party e-mail solution, but I'd rather not spend the money.  Anyone have any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it?

I have the same problem, although the characters I type do end up on the screen after a while. Just the screen updates are frozen, so you don't see what you're typing (or erasing using backspace, even more annoying if you keep it pressed and end up erasing half your message). Very, very annoying, almost unbelievable in 2012. This type of lag would have been unacceptable 20 years ago. Processing speeds have increased how much exactly in the mean time? This does indeed appear to be related to autosave, but it's beyond me why this can't simply happen in a separate thread so you can keep typing.

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