Am 28.06.2017 um 00:51 schrieb Steven Schveighoffer:

But the AA that is currently used for the reference counts is another
obvious target, although that fortunately shouldn't be a big issue once
the connection count stabilizes, thanks to the open addressing of the
improved AAs. Still not necessary.

The AA still allocates a block for each element. But you are right it should stabilize at some point.

Hm, I see. I'll have to take a look at the implementation. I was under
the impression that everything is stored in a single flat over-allocated
array (of int in this case).