Slow Preview RAW file support in Mavericks

Since upgrading to Mavericks, the RAW file Preview speed is apauling and basically unusable. It takes a painfully long time to browse and quickview CR2 RAW files.
Has anyone else encountered this?
It's that bad that I'm forced to use my old Mountain Lion installation to sort my image files. Is there an update in the pipline to solve this? If it persists, I'll be forced to move away from OSX to edit and manage photos.
NOTE: I have a Canon 600D that generates CR2 files. These are 'apparently' supported by Mavericks.
Thanks,
Darren

Apple support has gone silent on this issue, still no resolution for the issue. I tried turning off the file indexing without any luck. When looking at the activity monitor, did notice the kernel_task % CPU jumps up and the fan kicks in at high spin rate. It takes anywhere from 2-5 seconds opening a raw files (Canon's CR2). Considering one of Apple strong point against PC is video-image editing, this has really puts a kabash in user editing segment.

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