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Wrong again. It depends on the CPU. They can absolutely read a single byte and they will do if you're reading from non-idempotent memory.
If you're reading from idempotent memory they won't read a byte or a word. They'll likely read a whole cache line (usually 64 bytes).
Where?
No they won't because it isn't faster. The CPU will read the whole cache line that contains the byte.
Well, I would but no manual says that because it's wrong!
The fuck are you talking about, kiddo? Read the fucking docs!
What docs? A bool is one byte. Get over it. Find me one normal compiler/architecture in C, C++, Go, Rust, Zig, etc. where it is not. Go on.