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Tell me the truth ... (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Use bit-fields:

struct {
  bool a : 1;
  bool b : 1;
  bool c : 1;
  //...
};

Edit: careful not to use a 1-bit signed int, since the only values are 0 and -1, not 0 and 1. This tripped me up once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

In a world where a bigger memory chip is more expensive by only a few cents where this would be most useful, is this feature still relevant?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, because cache optimization is still important. Also useful to keep the size of packets down, to reduce the size of file formats, and anywhere that you use hundreds of thousands of instances of the struct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For the packet size and fils format issues, it seems like this language feature would be less reliable than bit shifting or masking, given that different implementations may store the bits in a different order or not compactly

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