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timhh

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  • It's not just less memory though - it might also introduce spurious data dependencies, e.g. to store a bit you now need to also read the old value of the byte that it's in.

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  • I don't think so. Apart from dynamically typed languages which need to store the type with the value, it's always 1 byte, and that doesn't depend on architecture (excluding ancient or exotic architectures) or optimisation flags.

    Which language/architecture/flags would not store a bool in 1 byte?

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  • No it isn't. All statically typed languages I know of use a byte. Which languages store it in an entire 32 bits? That would be unnecessarily wasteful.

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  • Well there are containers that store booleans in single bits (e.g. std::vector<bool> - which was famously a big mistake).

    But in the general case you don't want that because it would be slower.