Too many albums slows down iTunes?

I've never used iTunes to organize my massive music library, but I want to give it a try.
I don't think in terms of songs. I think in terms of albums - ripped CDs. I have over 3,500 physical CDs and FLACs I'm converting to ALAC.
I read some very old forum posts that discussed iTunes bogging down, sometimes hanging or crashing, because someone had "too large" a library. But those comments I read were several years old, obviously discussing older versions of iTunes.
Assuming that lossy compression is completely out of the question, is a person going to notice iTunes 11.1 responding slowly or hanging with that many lossless albums in his library? A drag to use?
Without resorting to multiple libraries, how many ALAC albums is "too many" for iTunes?

I think a LARGE PART of what you're dealing with is format...
I have 41,742 songs (3212 albums) and 673 audiobooks in my iTunes library with album art for ALL of it.
It ONLY lags when adding new tracks, and even that's just for a second or two at most.
BUT...
My collection is MP3 (192kpbs maximum) and M4B (128kbps maximum). EVERYTHING comes to 267Gb.
As FLAC or ALAC, you're looking at a substantially larger library that's going to be slower to update...
Updating a 23mb ALAC track's ID3 tags... takes longer than a 4mb MP3.
Updating artwork for an album of ALAC tracks... takes longer than an album of MP3 tracks.
Renaming an album of ALAC tracks... and so on.
Not being a music professional I don't NEED to have lossless music. I listen to most of my stuff through earbuds while riding. Too much outside noise to really appreciate the nuances of a studio quality rendition of Beethoven's 9th.
If you DO need that quality, the lag is a trade off.

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