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[Joachim Berdal Haga <jobh@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I am pretty sure the shared_array object were added as a simple way of
> deciding ownership of the data. If the creation of the shared_array is costly
> we could use a ownership flag instead.

Or maybe two different classes. The thing is, ownership of Array<>
data is not known: if it's created with the (uint,T*) constructor then
the contents will be deleted by whoever owns the T*, and it's not safe
to hold references to it. Or so it seems to me.

But yes, it's fairly costly.

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j.