• @JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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    2415 hours ago

    It’s far more often stored in a word, so 32-64 bytes, depending on the target architecture. At least in most languages.

    • @timhh@programming.dev
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      3 hours ago

      No it isn’t. All statically typed languages I know of use a byte. Which languages store it in an entire 32 bits? That would be unnecessarily wasteful.