Is using boolean instead of byte(if I need 2 states) in Java useful for performance or it’s just illusion… Does all the space profit leveled by alignment?
Is using boolean instead of byte (if I need 2 states) in Java useful
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Is using boolean instead of byte(if I need 2 states) in Java useful for performance or it’s just illusion… Does all the space profit leveled by alignment?
You should use whichever is clearer, unless you have profiled your code, and decided that making this optimization is worth the cost in readability. Most of the time, this sort of micro-optimization isn’t worth the performance increase.
According to Oracle,