svn commit: r377746 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

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