All,
I believe the documentation for time (including comments in the source) are inaccurate regarding the units used for measurements of memory size.
From the current documentation [1] it would seem that kilo-bytes (1000 bytes).
However, from experimentation [2] and reading the code [3,4,5,6] it appears that time is measuring in kibi-bytes (1024 bytes).
Measuring with either unit is fine in my opinion, but the documentation needs to be accurate.
While some individuals may disagree on their personal and conversational usage on kilo-/kibi-bytes, it is an established standard [7], and being off by ~2% is significant when the memory volumes being measured are large, as they are for me.
Am I correct in my assessment, or am I missing something?
Can we change the documentation to the correct units?
Thanks!
-Ian J. Bertolacci