Size on System.Boolean variable

[Tony Johansson]

Hello!

What can the reason be for making a System.Boolean as big as 4 bytes.
It's only true or false.

I imagine the variable type of a boolean could have been made much smaller.

//Tony

[Jeroen Mostert]

Re: Size on System.Boolean variable

Tony Johansson wrote:

What can the reason be for making a System.Boolean as big as 4 bytes.
It's only true or false.
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Alignment. A 32-bit integer is faster to process than a single byte.

I imagine the variable type of a boolean could have been made much smaller.
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Yes, but memory size is generally cheaper than memory access.

There's BitVector32 for optimized storage if it's needed.

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J.