Well I tried PPR/TCZ due to the fact that TCEs occupy ram more, but even with max_loop=100 it still ran sluggish, I moved to use "local=hda2" and "home=hda2" to have it in PPI/TCE mode with persistent home, which seems to make the virtual machine run a lot faster once Opera is installed.
I did have a couple small TCEs along with TCZs when I tried the PPR/TCZ style, although I do not know if that would cause the sluggishness or not. All I know is once I installed the Opera extension, the virtual machine would run slow once Opera was launched, and still run a little bit slow even after it was closed (TOP still shows the opera process)
Although the PPI/TCE mode is relatively tidy in it's implementation (An inherent feature of Tiny Core), but there may be programs that I want to use, but not fully install on the persistent tclocal folder.