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We need to be able to express 0 and 1 as integers so that functionality is just being overloaded to express another concept.
Wait until the person who made this meme finds out about how many bits are being wasted on modern CPU architectures. 7 is the minimum possible wasted bits but it would be 31 on every modern computer (even 64b machines since they default to 32b ints).
Wait till you realise the size of SSD sectors
3GPP has an interesting way of serialising bools on the wire with ASN.1
NULL OPTIONAL
meaning only the type would be stored if true, otherwise it won't be set at all
I swore I read that mysql dbs will store multiple bools in a row as bit maps in one byte. I can't prove it though
This guy never coded in KEIL C on an 8051 architecture. They actually use bit addressable RAM for booleans. And if you set the compiler to pass function parameters in registers, it uses the carry flag for the first bit or bool type parameter.
This reminds me that I actually once made a class to store bools packed in uint8 array to save bytes.
Had forgotten that. I think i have to update the list of top 10 dumbest things i ever did.
pragma(pack) {
int a:1, b:1, ... h:1;
}
IIRC.
7 Shades of Truth
...or you can be coding assembler - it's all just bits to me
Pl/1 did it right:
Dcl 1 mybools, 3 bool1 bit(1) unaligned, 3 bool2 bit(1) unaligned, … 3 bool8 bit(1) unaligned;
All eight bools are in the same byte.
I mean is it really a waste? What's minimum amount of bits most CPUs read in one cycle.
In terms of memory usage it's a waste. But in terms of performance you're absolutely correct. It's generally far more efficient to check is a word is 0 than to check if a single bit is zero.