Internally it will still read a whole word. Because the CPU cannot read less than a word. And if you read the ARM article you linked, it literally says so.
Thus any compiler worth their salt will align all byte variables to words for faster memory access. Unless you specifically disable such behaviour. So yeah, RTFM :)
Sorry, but you’re very confused here.
It’s not wasteful, it’s faster. You can’t read one byte, you can only read one word. Every decent compiler will turn booleans into words.
Oh, you’re one of those “think of the kids” nutjobs!
The problem with your logic is that now you have to have multiple accounts across the “same bloody Lemmy”. That kills the whole purpose of a decentralised approach. Defederation should not be a thing at all.
The fuck are you talking about, kiddo? Read the fucking docs!