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Article #20Re: benchmark terminology
From: Rick Jones
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 20:58
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 20:58
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vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: : : I prefer 1KB=1024 Bytes, and 1MB = 1K*1KBytes = 2**20 Bytes. : : That makes 1M about 4% larger than 1,000,000. : : When I say I have measured 500MByte/sec over ethernet with my stuff, I : can be more confident that other people will also measure 500MB. : I would concur, except when I report a result in bits per second, then I would use "SI" units (powers of 10) insteand of "CS" units (powers of two). I figure that people moving bytes are moving memory from place to place, and people talking bits are link-level types. rick jones
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