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nomenclature nitpick&question - OT

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011, at 2:50 p.m.

In Response To: GNUbg optimal cache size for analysis (Michael Petch)

...we defaulted the cache size to ~21mb...

With some selective editing, I wonder how 21 millibits could be much of a cache size. :)

Obviously you aren't doing something that a zillion other CS people do all the time, but in reality I do (sometimes) find this confusing. Even though the less confusing unit indicator is MB (MegaByte), and in CS there should (never/seldom) be confusion between 'm' and 'M', I don't think that's the case with 'b' vs. 'B'. I know that some transfer rates used to be giving in bit/s units instead of Byte/s units. Is that completely archaic? I.e. would no one ever use bits as a unit anymore?

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