Programmer Humor

if wasting a byte or seven matters to you, then then you need to be working in a lower level language.

Joke’s on you, I always use 64 bit wide unsigned integers to store a 1 and compare to check for value.

I have a solution with a bit fields. Now your bool is 1 byte :

struct Flags {
    bool flag0 : 1;
    bool flag1 : 1;
    bool flag2 : 1;
    bool flag3 : 1;
    bool flag4 : 1;
    bool flag5 : 1;
    bool flag6 : 1;
    bool flag7 : 1;
};

Or for example:

struct Flags {
    bool flag0 : 1;
    bool flag1 : 1:
    int x_cord : 3;
    int y_cord : 3;
};

boolean bloat

True.

just like electronic components, they sell the gates by the chip with multiple gates in them because it's cheaper

Wait until you hear about alignment

Are you telling me that no compiler optimizes this? Why?

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.

Wait till you here about every ascii letter. . .

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).

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

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.

Wait till you realise the size of SSD sectors

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