[fpc-pascal] Booleans vs sets

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu Sep 21 11:47:20 CEST 2017



On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:16:21 +0700
> Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Sets need less memory as they are stored as bits.
> Speed depends on the operations and amount of objects.
> I would recommend sets.

Same here.

Michael.


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