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

Consider what the disassembly would look like. There's no fast way to do it.

It's also unnecessary since 8 bytes is a negligible amount in most cases. Serialization is the only real scenario where it matters. (Edit: and embedded)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

In embedded, if you are to the point that you need to optimize the bools to reduce the footprint, you fucked up sizing your mcu.