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[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

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

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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)

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks 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.

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