gb_t and memMeter

From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:02:24 +0200

 Can anyone shed some light on why do we use some strange
 type gb_t that consists of 4byte counters with special
 handling of overflow for "bytes" counter, instead of just
 simply using double type for counters?

 Seems to be used only in memMeters, and is somewhat on
 the way...

 I'd like to convert memMeter to use doubles where large
 values are expected. Is there any reason not to do that?

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 Andres Kroonmaa <andre@online.ee>
 CTO, Delfi Online
 Tel: 6501 731, Fax: 6501 708
 Pärnu mnt. 158, Tallinn,
 11317 Estonia
Received on Mon Apr 30 2001 - 10:07:32 MDT

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