Benjamin Mahler created MESOS-273:
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Summary: Add a Bytes abstraction akin to Duration
Key: MESOS-273
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-273
Project: Mesos
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Benjamin Mahler
We've accumulated a lot of cruft around amount of memory/disk.
via benh: "It's really time for a Bytes/Kilobytes/Megabytes/Gigabytes struct.
Unlike Duration, maybe it makes sense to just create a single Bytes class as
the "base", or maybe call it Bits? Not sure if Size or Data are descriptive
enough."
My thoughts:
Size: typically refers to number of things (list::size, vector::size,
map::size, ...)
Data: typically refers to the data itself, rather than size (char* data, string
data, ...)
Bytes: although works fine at the unit level, like Seconds, seems odd as the
base class (makes me think of actual byte data, rather than # of bytes).
Duration worked nicely to avoid doing Amount<Time>, however in this case it's
tricker to avoid Amount<Data> (
https://github.com/twitter/commons/tree/master/src/java/com/twitter/common/quantity
)
I'd go with Bytes or Bits, preferably Bytes.
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