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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:28:29 +0100
From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Consider dropping the decimal places for KiB/s 52.00 KiB/s
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On 2023-11-30 20:07, Taylor Blau wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 06:11:57PM +0000, Jonny Grant wrote:
>> $ git clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git git_1
>> Cloning into 'git_1'...
>> remote: Enumerating objects: 2949348, done.
>> remote: Counting objects: 100% (209238/209238), done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14579/14579), done.
>> Receiving objects:   7% (210878/2949348), 76.33 MiB | 52.00 KiB/s
> 
> On my machine:
> 
>     $ git.compile clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git
>     [...]
>     Receiving objects:  11% (342176/2949348), 108.09 MiB | 24.01 MiB/s
> 
> I suppose we could consider dropping the decimal component if it's a
> round number, but I think that it may produce awkward flickering if the
> rate oscillates between a round number and a non-round number.

You're right, the resulting flickering would look really annoying.  In 
fact, I already modified the reported download speed in another project 
to avoid pretty much the same kind of flickering, and it looked much 
better without it.