Back when RAM cost more per byte than your monthly rent, veteran programmers had to get *creative*. Packing 8 boolean values into a single byte using bitwise operations wasn't just optimization—it was survival. Sure, it made the code run slower because you had to mask, shift, and extract individual bits every time you needed to check a flag, but when you're working with kilobytes (not gigabytes) of memory, you do what you gotta do. Today's juniors casually allocating arrays of objects while the old guard still flinches at unnecessary memory usage. The trauma runs deep.
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