boolean data type

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zambani (Posted 2008) [#1]

Is there ant difference in making true/false data a byte, short or an Int. I see a lots places where people use Int. Is that a waste of space since boolean can fit into a byte? Thanks

Gabriel (Posted 2008) [#2]

Yes, it's a waste of space, but with even the cheapest machines having 2 gigs now, shaving off three bytes here and there really doesn't make much difference. Also, consider that using Integers is faster than Bytes and Shorts.

GfK (Posted 2008) [#3]

If you wanted to be really pedantic you could store eight booleans in a single byte. Completely pointless, though.

zambani (Posted 2008) [#4]

@Gabriel: I had a feeling Int was faster @Gfk: True, True