Working w / gmail and 'all mail'

If I understand correctly, apple mail is working better with gmail now. In the past, I turned off SHOW in IMAP for 'all mail' then apple mail saw just one copy of each mail in their folder/lables.
NOW we are forced to use all mail - but I am told it will NOT create duplicate copies in apple mail (like aliases) - is this correct?
Another issue is that with mabye thousands of legacy emails in gmail - will this slow down the daily operations of apple mail?
ALSO - is it true that we can NOT delete old mail from 'all mail' so we are forced to deal with stuff we don't want / need and have now way of deleting it because gmail doesn't have a way to do this?
I am curious to know this before I move to Mavericks.
Thanks - Dave

Thanks Csound1 - good news - I didn't know we can delete from all mail - I will look into that!
Now if one has thousands of emails in all mail - can that bog down apple mail daily use?
In my case I have an account tied to many varied tech forums going back a few years... so It's nice to keep the history but not if it will slow down apple mail...

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