use_count() can be slow (not constant time) depending on underlying implementation.
Similar situation to std::list::size() == 0 an std::list::empty(), the former
does a big traversal/computation only to check if the very first step went.
I think the current boost implementation is just a reference count anyway, but
hey. In theory.
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