>today, i read msdn like usual, suddenly i found variable with type of[color=blue]
>System.Boolean should take up 2 Bytes. it surprised me a lot. why a
>boolean value should take up 2 bytes?[/color]

It doesn't, it takes one byte (the smallest size you can address). You
can check that yourself with sizeof(bool). Any MSND topics that says
otherwise are wrong. If you want to store a lot of boolean values with
just a single bit each, use a BitArray.


Mattias

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