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. :)
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. :)
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. :)
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?
Darrell