> Processors are inherently awesome at branching, adding, adding, shifting, etc. And shifting to get powers of 2 (i.e., KB vs. GB) is a superpower of its own. They're a little less awesome when it comes to math.pow(), math.log(), and math.log() / math.log().
And here's something to consider -- if you're converting a number to human readable format it's more likely than not your about to do I/O with the resulting string, which is probably going to be an order of magnitude more expensive than the little function here.
And here's something to consider -- if you're converting a number to human readable format it's more likely than not your about to do I/O with the resulting string, which is probably going to be an order of magnitude more expensive than the little function here.