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[–] timhh 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No it isn't. All statically typed languages I know of use a byte. Which languages store it in an entire 32 bits? That would be unnecessarily wasteful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It's not wasteful, it's faster. You can't read one byte, you can only read one word. Every decent compiler will turn booleans into words.