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  • It’s not an European thing. It’s an awful statistics thing.

    People see a lot more trans people on the internet than IRL. Places on the internet usually have big programming spaces. Therefore the place where ppl see more trans ppl is in programming spaces. So now they think that most trans ppl are programmers. After that, they conclude that most trans ppl are programmers. Add to it the snowball effect of memes and now you have a huge misconception about reality.








  • Well, to get a boolean out of a bit array you have to do some operations. So at first it doesn’t make it more performant. Compilers probably don’t automatically make them bitarrays because of that.

    However, the memory savings means less cache used. And a cache miss is way more expensive than those bit operations. So they should be more performant. I’m sure someone out there has done the actual research and there’s a good reason why compilers don’t make all booleans bitarrays.