boolean data type

Is there ant difference in making true/false data a byte, short or an Int. I see a lots places where people use Int. Is that a waste of space since boolean can fit into a byte?

Thanks

Yes, it's a waste of space, but with even the cheapest machines having 2 gigs now, shaving off three bytes here and there really doesn't make much difference. Also, consider that using Integers is faster than Bytes and Shorts.

If you wanted to be really pedantic you could store eight booleans in a single byte.

Completely pointless, though.

@Gabriel: I had a feeling Int was faster

@Gfk: True, True