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Because its network bandwidth, and network units are in bits for historical reasons. I actually griped about this in my talk .. it makes it a pain to talk ab
by drewg123 5y ago
Because its network bandwidth, and network units are in bits for historical reasons. I actually griped about this in my talk .. it makes it a pain to talk about memory bw vs network bw without mental gymnastics to move around that factor of 8
- tester756 5y agothank you
- jakeinspace 5y agoPersonally, I think that keeping the bit as the default network bandwidth unit is a good idea. When expressing physical transmission limitations, the equations of information theory are all in terms of bits (being the smallest unit of classical information). Obviously, this means that somewhere on the spectrum from the Shannon Limit to storage on disk, we've gotta shift from bits to bytes. The NIC is as good a border as any.