wierd duration shown in progress with 0 byte files

[Paul Slootman]

On Sat 05 Mar 2005, Wayne Davison wrote:

> > I don't quite see the point of setting diff to 1ms if it's zero...

> Because an elapsed time of 0 means that any data that arrived, arrived
> very quickly.  Setting the rate to 0 when the elapsed time is 0 is the
> opposite of what we need -- an infinite data rate.  I like the idiom of
> changing the elapsed time from 0 to 1 so that it divides safely into the
> quantity of sent data, and thus gives us a non-0 rate (if any data was
> actually sent).

Yes, I get that, but the else branch of the if did a "diff ? bla /diff : 0"
i.e. only using diff iff it's not zero, while the then branch went about
it another way (i.e. setting diff to 1 if it was zero). I don't like
inconsistencies like that in programs, esp. so close together...
Doing the division only if diff is > 0 saves an assignment and a
division in the case it was zero...


Paul Slootman