On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:15:25 -0800 (PST) Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com wrote:
Regarding the fadeaway, long ago I wrote a bug report
to provide a
KControl option to disable the fadeaway. The fadeaway
is too slow on
older hardware. To me the fadeaway adds no meaningful
value but I'm
not asking for a complete ripping. :) Lots of people
like that kind
of eye candy, but we should have an option to disable
the effect for
those who don't.
FYI even your K6-II could take benefit of MMX optimizations.
One of my older machines is a 400 MHz K6-III+ with 256 MB of RAM, but you remember pretty close nonetheless. :)
I confused with the K6-II I used when I was a kid :)
The other clunker here is a 350 MHz PII. Well, I have a 486 still functioning, but nothing Linux related runs well on that box --- WFWG 3.11 with the Norton Desktop flies. :)
are you saying having tried a Linux distribution 15 years younger than your 486... with busybox/uclibc or Slackware 4.0 the performance would probably have been better ;)
I use those machines as a performance yardstick of sorts for older hardware. Most people today think a 1 GHz machine with 1 GB of RAM is old. Not in this house. :)
Not in mine either, such a machine is just "a little slow to use KDE4". Especially with a Full HD panel and KWin effects automatically activated ;) Actually I still have a machine that I could use for KDE4/Trinity optimisation (if I have the time to set up a cross-compiling environment), it's not old (actually it's still in sale today) but has a single-core non-x86 CPU and a very weak GPU which do a good job to slaughter the Debian Squeeze's KDE4 performance.
Now, do you mean I need to recompile something to take advantage of MMX optimizations or are you referring to something in TDE code that should be tweaked with those optimizations?
It is not TDE code yet, but KDE4 code that could be imported into TDE (or alternatively I could implement my own MMX intrisics code...)
Darrell
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