Performing some common tasks with LR is just... a joke

Question

I'm a big fan of Lightroom, I use it as my main workflow application, I even wrote detailled reviews on some european websites, etc...
But I can't get some of its basic features. Using LR as an image viewer and e-mailing is really a joke.
Preparing and converting 10 CR2 files to 1024 x 768 @ 90 % quality for e-mail takes about 2 - 2 1/2 minutes on my machine.
Doing the same thing ( plus adding frame and shadow ! ) with Faststone Viewer - which is free - takes exactly 10 seconds, yes, 10 seconds on the same machine.
Don't get me wrong, LR is probably the best thing released for photographers since a while but, for some parts of it, I just don't get it.
I wish I could perform basic & common tasks within Lightroom, which is simply not possible.
Gilles.

Answer 1

Back to the original subject.
Yes, I know that LR has to render pictures and Faststone uses only embedded previews from raw file. But I think most of you didn't get what I try to explain. Let's start again :
- Faststone is very fast at preparing attachments for e-mails, from ANY type of image files ( raw, TIFF, JPEG, whatever ).
- Faststone does the same with edited images, quick and easy ( so the comments about the embedded raw files which helps Faststone to create quick attachments have no value, not at all ).
- Faststone resizes on the fly, including batch images, and has a scroll menu to select standard sizes ( 1024 x 768, 800 x 600, etc... ).
- Faststone always let you know the dimensions AND the size of the output file. With Lightroom, while using the JPEG compression slider, you have to guess the file size and expect it not to be too heavy.
- Faststone knows your default email client. Lightroom doesn't.Lightroom requires to put shortcuts in folders, bla-bla-bla... or to install an extra program - GREAT.
Why are those common sense stuff and functions not part of Lightroom ? Having to guess the output size of my jpeg files just goes beyond me. In my company, the max attachment size is 5 MB. With faststone, I can easily control that. With Lightroom, not at all.I guess that, in 2007, emailing is still a major communication system.
Now coming back to thumbnails viewing : I want to have the same speed and ease of use as BreezeBrowser of Faststone. Period.
Gilles.