Sometime around one of the last theme updates (I'm on 3.3.3) my site has begun to respond very slowly when a search is performed.
At first I thought it might be a plugin conflict so I disabled all of the plugins but that did not improve the speed.
So then I thought it might be my host (although I haven't had problems in the past) so I verified that by installing a different theme and although I couldn't search my images with the theme, everything seemed pretty snappy again.
Then I used a plugin called P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) to scan my site. The plugin shows what components of your site are taking the most resources and causing the site to be slow. The graph I got is attached. It seems to be showing me that the problem with my speed is a result of the theme itself. Look at the crazy load time for the theme (over 20 seconds).
Is anyone else experiencing a slow down on version 3.3.3? I checked a few other symbio sites and didn't see a problem but I don't know what version they were on.