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Re: Mac Pro memory sizes
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Re: Mac Pro memory sizes


  • Subject: Re: Mac Pro memory sizes
  • From: Kenneth Bruno II <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:59:45 -0500


On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Benjamin Dobson wrote:


On 11 Jan 2009, at 22:04:09, Kenneth Bruno II wrote:

In actuality a gibibyte (GiB) is 2^20 bytes but it's not used in all the places it should be used.

It's rarely used at all, for several reasons. One is that it makes little sense to your average consumer, but the more amusing reason that standard isn't used is because "kibibyte" sounds like a children's breakfast cereal.


In general, it depends on the level of technical discussion going on. In this area it should always mean 2^30, in my opinion. In context of discussing hard drive sizes with your neighbour, it rarely matters. Remember: context. For example, a discussion on Wikipedia is leaning to wards constant use of giga- anyway to prevent confusion. In general, the discussions which occur on these lists would not generate such confusion when gibi- is used, but use of giga- to mean 10^9 would be far less useful than the "real" value of 2^30.

Yes, I'd assume in this context that GB means 2^30 instead of 10^9 but it still stands to reason that you should be careful to find out exactly which meaning is relevant.


One important thing to note is that if you assume GB means 10^9 bytes and you plan your resource usage accordingly then even if really represents 2^30 bytes you won't over-allocate resources since 2^30 is larger than 10^9. If you assume that GB means 2^30 bytes and it is really the smaller amount of 10^9 bytes then you could run out of resources.

- Ken
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