Chris >Just going on the obvious seat of pants issue of (at least, assuming 8 = byte >size) 8x smaller arrays and 8x as much data that need sloshing around through >all the memory hierarchy. logically everything is well representable ... it is >just a problem at a practical level.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: chris burke <[email protected]> to: Programming forum <[email protected]> date: 13 August 2015 at 19:59 subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Bitwise operations utility >> ...there has been a long standing resistance to having such. >I think the "resistance to having such" is more a matter of not having the >time to do it properly. >> ... is definitely the poorer for those who would use such. >In what way would you use bit booleans that would not be possible with byte >booleans? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
