> Ron Cole <roncole@SHORE.INTERCOM.NET> wrote:
> Pay me now, or pay me later, but sooner or later you gotta pay :-)
>
> Space for the new field would be allocated for every prototype AND
> every instance.. wasteful.. Better to use the flag... or you could
> create a linked-list of vnums to delete.. Still better than a byte for
> each prototype.
Okay, perhaps I'm missing something.
Boolean variables only hold values of 0 or 1... thus, they should
require only one bit of memory... correct? That seems minimal enough.
If I am at all on the right track here, that should mean that a
structure containing boolean variables should be an efficient means
of storing flags.
Okay, given that people are going through all the trouble to do
bitfields or bitvectors, I must be missing something.
Daniel Houghton
AKA
Garadon
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