On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:24:05 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> In this case, I would suggest to use straight number.
>>
>> If you notice, the lengths are listed as {0} KB, {0} MB, {0} GB (there are
>> no terabytes, I see), and "1023 bytes" would make the string too long and
>> might case ellipses to appear.
>>
>> Also, the threshold might be set at <= 999 instead of 1024. The reason is
>> group separator - the user might prefer to see 1,023 instead of 1023.
>>
>> Ideally, there should be a pluggable policy (formatter) to format the
>> lengths to the user's liking.
>>
>> To summarize,
>> 0...999 -> "0" ... "999"
>> 1000 ... 1023 -> "1 KB"
>
> Another option is to use `java.text.CompactNumberFormat` which can handle
> those K/M/B suffixes nicely.
Would java.text.CompactNumberFormat work for java 8?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9327
