On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:15:25 -0800 (PST) Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... Read > list messsages on the Web archive: > http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >