Lightroom 5.5 Cropping tool so SLOW update to fix?

I recently upgraded to LR 5.5 with help from Adobe support with the technician taking over my screen, soI'm confident it's all been upgraded and installed correctly.
But when cropping rotating an image it takes 3 secs to catch up what I have done. Over a 1000 photo wedding to edit this can be a serious waste of time.
My computer is very good. iMac 2013 with 32Gb RAM.
Anyone else having thos and more importantly found a fix for it?
Are ADOBE aware of this bug and are they bringing out an update?
Thanks
Jon

Hi,
<Before optimising catalog>
I've tried using the upright tool and it's as snappy as ever. I've also tried manual perspective transformations, and they seem to be just as fast as they were before the upgrade to LR5.5.
I've also tried a handful of other operations (Vignetting, Post Crop Vignetting, Tone Curve Adjustment, Radial Filter), and they all respond at a decent pace. So currently, yes it's just cropping/rotating that are moving slowly.
<After optimising catalog>
I can't be sure whether I'm imagining it or not, but crop/rotate do seem to be a little smoother/faster. I was getting the "rainbow wheel" previously, and I'm not getting that now - there's just a brief pause while the image appears to re-render, and then we're underway again.
Again I might be imagining it, but it seems as though the drag/delay is greater when I'm cropping down significantly - slight downsizing of images doesn't seem to result in as much of a delay as massive downsizing by cropping.
I'll carry on like this and see whether there's a sustained improvement.
Many thanks for your help,
Vineet

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