因为在一般情况下，CPU以1字节作为基本单位分配内存，尽管一些CPU如MIPS使用4字节字。

但是vector以一种特殊的方式处理bool类型，vector<bool>为每个bool类型分配一个位。

因为字节是语言中最小的可寻址单位。

但是你可以让bool值为1位，如果你有很多 如。在结构体中，像这样:

struct A
{
  bool a:1, b:1, c:1, d:1, e:1;
};

最简单的答案是;这是因为CPU以字节而不是位来寻址内存，按位的操作非常慢。

然而，在c++中可以使用位分配。对于位向量，有std::vector专门化，还有接受位大小条目的结构。

Back in the old days when I had to walk to school in a raging blizzard, uphill both ways, and lunch was whatever animal we could track down in the woods behind the school and kill with our bare hands, computers had much less memory available than today. The first computer I ever used had 6K of RAM. Not 6 megabytes, not 6 gigabytes, 6 kilobytes. In that environment, it made a lot of sense to pack as many booleans into an int as you could, and so we would regularly use operations to take them out and put them in.

今天，当人们嘲笑你只有1gb的RAM，而你唯一能找到小于200gb的硬盘的地方是在古董店，它只是不值得麻烦打包比特。

考虑一下如何在模拟器级别实现这一点……

bool a[10] = {false};

bool &rbool = a[3];
bool *pbool = a + 3;

assert(pbool == &rbool);
rbool = true;
assert(*pbool);
*pbool = false;
assert(!rbool);

字节是计算机中数字数据存储的较小单位。在计算机中，RAM有数百万个字节，每个字节都有一个地址。如果每个比特都有一个地址，那么计算机就可以少管理8倍的内存。

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