Array of booleans

[Paul Sandoz]

> On Mar 18, 2021, at 9:57 AM, David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity, semantically would these vector operations be more like splaying the bits of the bytes into booleans, or more like mapping each byte into a true/false value?
> 

The latter:

  false -> 0b; true -> 1b

There would be some normalization the other way around e.g.

  0b -> false; otherwise -> true

(Internally HotSpot storage mapping would be 0b -> 0b; otherwise -> 1b, IIRC what Unsafe does.)

Paul.