Number of Photos on iPhoto

What is the max amount of photos that iPhoto can hold? I have about 5,000 and wonder if I should burn them to a disk and start over again. Any thoughts?
Connie

I have 2gb RAM on my MacBook and an iPhoto library with nearly 50,000 images. It runs ok as long as I don't really have any other big applications running at the same time. If I run it with iTunes open (my iTunes library is pretty large) then it certainly becomes less responsive, though still perfectly manageable.
The big slow down for me comes from having a lot of distinct Places. When I click on the Places button to go to the world map view it can take around a minute to draw - I have 1600 places created.
Craig

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