Boolean Add-on

[nwinn-student]

Although this has already been declined in whole, I wish to publicize the decline as the idea is beneficial to size-oriented serializers.

Would it be worth it to add more approaches for booleans? Particularly the option to store 1-8 booleans in 2 bytes. There is also the option to store booleans w/ a size, like buffers and strings, and pack 8 booleans per byte.

I do not see many using booleans except for the occasional truthy condition. I do not expect users to create arrays full of booleans, as buffers and strings and 32-bit integers and even vectors are more efficient.

I do however see small collections of booleans being easy to identify and store. We could even localize the boolean as a number and continue processing (modifying the number) until we hit a non-boolean or the number is greater than some value then store the number.

[nwinn-student]

I do however see small collections of booleans being easy to identify and store.

Pre-processing into a number would be ideal in most of these situations.

Pre-processing in general is preferable when the goal is reduced output size.