Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Also, I forgot to mention, could you try a very old auto-build to see if that has the same slowness:
http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/
If you find that the oldest is not slow, then narrowing down the date range would help a lot.
i just downloaded the oldest i could find with an OSX/Intel build (2008-01-08) and got exactly the same problem.