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I have a 64-bit gender (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's why you use bitarrays and bitflags instead when you need more than just one or two arguments for a function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Only if it's performance sensitive. Otherwise you're wasting programmer time both writing and reading the code, and you've made it less maintainable with more complexities where bugs can creep in.

The vast majority of the time you can afford a few wasted bits.

Honestly though I don't quite understand why a compiler couldn't optimise this process. Like it knows what a boolean is, surely it could reduce them down to bits.