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Precision in the progress meter
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:24:52 +0100 (CET)
Hi friends!
(Posted to both lists for posterity, but strictly speaking this is a libcurl
change so I prefer to have follow-ups there but I post on curl-users too since
curl tool users are affected as well.)
In curl 8.17.0 I modified the standard progress meter display to use one more
character per size shown. Six instead of the previous five. And it would use
decimals if the number is less than 1000.
- 999999
- 99999k
- 99999M
- 999.1G
etc
I did this because I thought added precision would be good. I was probably
wrong. The added characters unfortunately made the numbers harder to read.
So this is a call for everyone: what do you think?
I'm trying to iprove the situation going forward by limiting the numbers
slightly differently:
Max 5 digits without a unit and only display numbers less than 1000 with units
but then with a decimal (using a total of 6 characters):
- 99999
- 999.9k
- 123.4M
PR for this: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/19433
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:24:52 +0100 (CET)
Hi friends!
(Posted to both lists for posterity, but strictly speaking this is a libcurl
change so I prefer to have follow-ups there but I post on curl-users too since
curl tool users are affected as well.)
In curl 8.17.0 I modified the standard progress meter display to use one more
character per size shown. Six instead of the previous five. And it would use
decimals if the number is less than 1000.
- 999999
- 99999k
- 99999M
- 999.1G
etc
I did this because I thought added precision would be good. I was probably
wrong. The added characters unfortunately made the numbers harder to read.
So this is a call for everyone: what do you think?
I'm trying to iprove the situation going forward by limiting the numbers
slightly differently:
Max 5 digits without a unit and only display numbers less than 1000 with units
but then with a decimal (using a total of 6 characters):
- 99999
- 999.9k
- 123.4M
PR for this: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/19433
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