[Info-vax] CLI parsing routines suggestion, was: Re: InnoDB memory issue in MariaDB

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-10-11 14:16:58 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2020-10-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> That, or K and M suffixes.
>> 
>> /byt=200K/pgfl=2M
>> 
> 
> But is that /pgfl=(2*1000*1000) or /pgfl=(2*1024*1024) ? :-)

KB, KIB, MB, MIB, etc., were adopted ~20 years ago.

More than a little existing software around gets this wrong.

Given longstanding practice, I'd suggest developers use dice to select 
whether to use the base-10 or the base-2 units.

This to ensure the continued quality of the existing displays and UIs.

But then we've also previously discussed DCL and the limitations of 
compatibility, too.


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