Smart Sharpen Incredibly Slow 16-bit mode, Vista 64

I recently switched to a VISTA 64 machine, Quad, with 6 GB ram. I export 16-bit files from LR. Now the Smart Sharpen routine is horrendously slow - taking upwards of 5 or more minutes to sharpen a 5700x4300px image. If I change the mode down to 8-bits it runs reasonably like it did before (actually it's pretty good on the Quad Core). But what's wrong with the 16-bit file ... is it a bug with smart sharpen on 64 bit architectures or do I have some weird problem with the image size outstripping my processor level 1 or 2 cache (or something like that) causing it to thrash memory. During this period the Task Monitor shows all 4 CPU's at nearly 100%. The problem occurs in both basic and advanced mode.

I have also recently noticed the CS6 x64 version of Smart Sharpen takes longer to execute and definitely longer than CS5 x64 (running windows 7 with 16 GB RAM.
I cannot be sure and have no way of testing but this is a recent event and I do not remember it being this slow when I first installed CS6. So maybe something has changed. I work primarily with 16 bit images.
My memory is getting a little better and I do not remember seeing a progress bar, but now I do, get's off to a very slow start, then around 75% of completion it really speeds up. I could be wrong but it feels like it's not the actual sharpening process that is slower, but the mechanism writing the data. By the way I have a dedicated scratch drive for CS6 with nothing on it except the autorecover directory and there is 1.5TB free
But whatever, something has changed - not for the better
Mike

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