Variable tag editing speed

Hey gurus
I have been editing large numbers of tags throughout my music collection and I noticed that some changes to tags are written almost instantaneously while others take a surprisingly long time. My music in in mp3 format for the most part, and the variation in write speed occurs for the same tag type e.g. album title.
What could be the reasons for this variability? File formats? Different ID3 versions? Sometimes it takes atrociously long to complete the task for files of average size (<10MB). I do also have much larger files that are 2-hour long sets I have downloaded, and it can take up to half an hour to simply add a single piece of coverart to as few as twenty files. Is the entire file scanned before the tags are edited? This might explain the delay during edits to these big files, though it seems deplorably inefficient for the entire file to be read when only the tags need to be. It still doesn't explain while some very average mp3 files take much much longer to have tags edited than others with seemingly no difference between them other than the song itself...
Perhaps someone with experience in how iTunes actually edits tags might have some insight to add to this. I can't imagine I'm the only one with this problem...
Thanks very much!

that's how "non destructive" editing works, isn't it? The actual video files are not moved around by the >editing?
That's the idea. Files are not duplicated.
Editing tells the Scratch Disc files what to play, how much and when plus any effects etc.
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I was wondering what happened to you - now I know. Welcome back.
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