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Tell me the truth ... (piefed.jeena.net)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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

[–] timhh 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ethancedwards8 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Why is this a big mistake? I’m not a c++ person

[–] bitcrafter 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The mistake was that they created a type that behaves like an array in every case except for bool, for which they created a special magical version that behaves just subtly different enough that it can break things in confusing ways.

[–] ethancedwards8 2 points 22 hours ago

Could you provide an example?

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