[fpc-pascal] Booleans vs sets

Ryan Joseph ryan at thealchemistguild.com
Fri Sep 22 12:26:06 CEST 2017


Got it, thanks guys.

Btw, how can I know what the size in bytes these 2 options are?

> On Sep 21, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:16:21 +0700
>> Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> wrote:
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>>> I have a class that is filling up with booleans. Would it be more efficient to store these as a “set of”? I have 10 bools which is getting up there.
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>> Sets need less memory as they are stored as bits.
>> Speed depends on the operations and amount of objects.
>> I would recommend sets.
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> Same here.
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Regards,
	Ryan Joseph




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