int opEquals(Object), and other legacy ints

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> There seem to be a number of leftovers from before we had a bool type, 
>> and many people were using the int type to pass booleans around.
> 
> They are typed as returning int for efficiency reasons. These functions 
> often appear in performance critical loops, where an extra instruction 
> or two makes a difference.

But isn't bool an int internally? Why is it less efficient to use a bool?

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