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The hard truth that keeps memory-conscious developers up at night. A boolean only needs 1 bit to represent true or false, but because most systems can't address individual bits, it gets allocated a whole byte. That's 87.5% storage efficiency loss, which is basically the computing equivalent of buying a mansion to store a single shoe.
Some languages try to optimize this with bit fields or packed structures, but let's be real—most of the time we're just casually wasting 7 bits per boolean like we're made of RAM. Which, to be fair, we kind of are these days. Storage is cheap, existential dread about inefficiency is free.
The real tragedy? Those 7 bits could've been living their best life storing actual data, but instead they're just... there. Unemployed. Collecting dust. A monument to the gap between theoretical computer science and practical implementation.
