On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 01:26:59PM +0200, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> Unfortunately that patch will not work - it completely breaks part of the 
> on-wire protocol. It is much better to simply convert the final results for 
> an auxiliary display. 

Yeah, after hours of running some results seems wrong, hopefully is not
broken on my missing part of converting a float to network byte order.

> I should also point out that I have very strong reasons for providing the 
> measurements in non-traditional units by default. I'm measuring 
> characteristics as they matter to applications and users, who measure things 
> in bytes and frames per second, not bits and milliseconds. It is also much 
> easier to get nontechnical people (who tend to be in charge of budgets) to 
> respond to bigger-is-better numbers. 

Understood your PoV, sadly even my bosses (who lacks any degree of
technicallity) knows that the Internet is sold to us in Mb/s (decimal)
and delay (as he call it) is measured in ms.

Good luck doing that nontechnical people use a CLI tool! ;)
-
 Otto
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