[docs] Use binary prefixes (issue 17193)
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Sat Feb 16 16:27:53 CET 2013
http://bugs.python.org/review/17193/diff/7360/Doc/library/lzma.rst
File Doc/library/lzma.rst (right):
http://bugs.python.org/review/17193/diff/7360/Doc/library/lzma.rst#newcode161
Doc/library/lzma.rst:161: :class:`LZMACompressor` object can be as high
as 800 MiB. For this reason,
On 2013/02/15 23:39:47, ezio.melotti wrote:
> On 2013/02/15 22:57:38, storchaka wrote:
> > On 2013/02/15 22:17:02, ezio.melotti wrote:
> > > Why is this MiB?
> >
> > See for example xz manual. 800 MiB is the memory usage for the
compression
> with
> > preset 9.
>
> That doesn't mean that it's correct :)
> 800 MiB is equal to 838860800 bytes, and while it might indeed be the
exact
> value they used, it seems a bit arbitrary to me.
I have no reason not to trust the author.
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