From owner-svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 17:03:27 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 4C88150B; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:03:27 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Vsevolod Stakhov Subject: Re: svn commit: r377746 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg Message-ID: <20150123170327.GA88205@FreeBSD.org> References: <201501231557.t0NFvKFE047114@svn.freebsd.org> <20150123160458.GA68670@FreeBSD.org> <54C277CA.8000609@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54C277CA.8000609@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin , svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:03:27 -0000 On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 04:33:14PM +0000, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote: > On 23/01/15 16:04, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > Oh dear god, no. Can we have a conditional (like -DSANE_UNITS) to > > suppress this MiB stupidity please? > > We can do it if and only if you could tell us your weight in stones > without asking the Internet. :) > > I'm personally happy to end the ambiguity between hard drive Terabytes > and network Tebibytes... HDD marketing dept. fuckers are out of question of course, but all the rest who cannot memorize that k == 1000 in km and k == 1024 in k[Bb] probably need to go back to school. For the normal people, these MiB's severely slow down reading speed and bandwidth information due to the constant WTF?-type read cacheline flushes. ./danfe