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[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 28 points 2 days ago

It's far more often stored in a word, so 32-64 bytes, depending on the target architecture. At least in most languages.

[-] timhh@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No it isn't. All statically typed languages I know of use a byte. Which languages store it in an entire 32 bits? That would be unnecessarily wasteful.

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