Would upgrading to Aperture affect speed?

Hello, I'm just looking for ways to keep our photo library quickly accessible, and wondering if an upgrade from iPhoto '09, version 8.1.2, to Aperture would help.
It's currently a 575 GB library, with roughly 100,000 photos and 10,000 movies. The library lives on a 1.5 TB external firewire drive, and runs on an iMac9,1 with a 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4 GB of RAM.
It doesn't crash, really, it's just sluggish, taking about 70 seconds to start up and seeming to put a drag on the rest of the computer's applications (Photoshop CS5 especially) whenever iPhoto is running.
We use iPhoto a lot, syncing old libraries and recent favorite pictures to our phones, ordering books around the holidays, viewing slideshows on our Apple TV, etcetera. So switching over could be worth it for us, despite the cost and difficulty, as long as it really would work better.
Any advice?
Thanks.

Well the first simple step is to back it up, so that the worst case scenario is to switch to the back up.
I would start with rebuilding. While a large library might take a moment or two to open, it should run slowly once opened, nor should it cause the rest of the Mac to run slow.
So: back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
See if that makes a difference. After doing the job launch Activity Monitor and see if it tells you anything about what may be using resources while iPhoto is running.

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The thing is I don't want to invest anymore in
software that's not pleasing me when there is another
one out there that does
If you prefer Lightroom use Lightroom. I use LR on my old G4 tower but far prefer Aperture, which I use on a MBP.
Note that evaluation of new apps is generally best done on modern hardware and the latest OS/apps versions. It is common knowledge that LR's speed on legacy hardware is superior to Aperture, but that is only relevant to those old versions, not to the future of either app.
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After upgrading to Aperture 3.4.1 (and really since 3.4), aperture becomes unresponsive almost immediately after I open it. It tears through over 1GB of memory within a minute, and I am forced to either force quit or open the terminal and "killall".

How do I fix this issue? I haven't been able to use Aperture or load new photos into Aperture for weeks. Since upgrading to Aperture 3, from Aperture 2; I've noticed that Aperture 3 is a major memory hog. I had to upgrade my unibody macbook to keep up with Aperture, otherwise my whole system become unresponsive when trying to simply look at my photos. I have about 15,000 pictures in my library, but the program is designed to organize large libraries. Why has it been so buggy the past year? Should I just jump ship and go to Lightroom?
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I doubt, Aperture is causing this crashes - it may be a coincidence; kernel panics quite often are due to an overfull hard disk, incompatible frameworks or kernel extensions, or to failing hardware. Run a hardware check, check the available disk space and file system with disk utility, and try to remember, if you installed anything else lately, that might have added incompatible kernel extensions. Turn off any helper apps, start up items.
Your kernel panic occurs when accessing the graphics card. Sometimes this can be resolved by booting into safe mode, this will disable advanced features and reset the card. Note: Aperture will not run in safe boot mode, see
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Browse MacBook forum and Mt. Lion forum, to see, if anybody else has problems with Mt. Lion and your particular Hardware configuration and card.
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