Surprisingly sensible. I wonder if compiler magic could, in theory, reduce enums that have only two options down to a single bit, but still provide all the type safety guarantees. Or maybe provide another primitive just for that purpose.
Particularly with a new primitive, you could literally have a language that just doesn't allow you to define generic booleans.
At the bare metal layer, most booleans are actually transported around as `int` (or WORD size), so there's no real performance benefit to compressing things down to one bit, other than if you really need to save 7 bits in physical storage.
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Surprisingly sensible. I wonder if compiler magic could, in theory, reduce enums that have only two options down to a single bit, but still provide all the type safety guarantees. Or maybe provide another primitive just for that purpose.
Particularly with a new primitive, you could literally have a language that just doesn't allow you to define generic booleans.
At the bare metal layer, most booleans are actually transported around as `int` (or WORD size), so there's no real performance benefit to compressing things down to one bit, other than if you really need to save 7 bits in physical storage.