Hi shirish,
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:49:52AM +0530, shirish wrote:
I'm no developer but just a simple user. One thing which wouldbe nice to see is having explicit nomenclature to say 1024 bytes instead of confusion between 1000 bytes & 1024 bytes.
Not so off-topic.
I just suggested the very same thing for a help message in lar, a utility to be used with v3 of LB. That is; to explicity state 1024 rather than abbreviating it with K.
While all the developers may be able to differentiate or know when any kind of testing takes place on general motherboards it would arise in difficulties. If however you guys took the KiB it makes things that much more simpler for everybody to understand. Dunno if you guys use the nomenclature internally or not.
For all our purposes except one, the multipliers are always 1024 and 1024*1024=1048576, and never 1000 and 1000000.
No rule without an exception I guess. For time or frequencies, e.g. CPU MHz, M always means 1000000 and k always means 1000.
Sometimes we can be sloppy with m vs. M too. m means milli and M means mega. But since milli is less than 1 it is usually clear from context that it is not applicable. For example with memory - it's not possible to have less than 1 byte of memory, so 1mb must mean megabyte even though it is strictly 1 millibyte. (1/1000 byte)
Thanks for pointing this out. We should fix any and all ambiguities.
I've filed a ticket in trac.
//Peter