Spot Removal and slow system after a few clicks

Hello All,
I just wanted to bring attention to a very annoying issue. If you use spot removal function a few times in a lightroom session, you end up with the impossibility to use it anymore if you do not exit lightroom and start again from zero.
What I mean is that after a few clicks on spot removal on 2-3 pictures, when you need to use it again on picture number 4, for example, the function is almost unusable (very slow movements that make impossible to put the spot tool in the right place).
If you then exit lightroom and start again everythimg is fine for a while. It seems it is allocating memory each time you use it....anybody having the same problem? Any idea how to solve it? I have been dealing with this since previous versions and it has never ben solved (if it is indeed a bug!).
Thanks all!
Cristiano

Hi Hans,
yes, I guess we'll have to wait...
I have worked with lightroom in the past and then moved to NX2 for a couple of months because I was loving the picture control correspondance with my raw files....then I was so desperate that I moved back to LR. NX2 was too slow and a very bad piece of software for me...altough I will keep an eye to future releases.
I am on a Mac.
Thanks!
Cristiano

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