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Bit depth of a boolean
I want to know what is meant by a bit depth.
In some forums I have seen that bit depth of a boolean depends on the virtual machine. Could somebody please explain what is this all about?
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Sun's (or Oracle's) JVM doesn't know about booleans; a boolean as a class object member takes four bytes and a boolean stored in an array takes up a single byte. Only the value zero vs non-zero is of interest to the JVM.
Originally Posted by subith86 
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