On 2025-01-21 07:59, Chris Ely wrote:
I'd
much rather not see the base 10 numbers at all
No matter which of the two numbers we display, people preferring the
other number will complain. This topic has come up before, multiple
times, with people commenting at lennnngth. See:
https://bugs.gnu.org/17505
https://bugs.gnu.org/22277
I rarely see transfer rates in anything other than SI units. When
companies market hardware, for example, they invariably use GB/s rather
than GiB/s because this makes their transfer rates look higher. So like
Pádraig I'm dubious about changing the transfer-rate line to use base
1024 only.
More generally, any such proposed patch shouldn't be just to the code:
it should explain specifically how the patch would affect dd's behavior,
and this explanation should include changes to the documentation and the
NEWS file. As things stand I don't know how the patch addresses the
motivation of avoiding SI units.
[1]:
https://www.lifestyleasia.com/hk/entertainment/gaming/nintendo-switch-2-announcement-and-updates-news/
