# \#smart-pointer

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## [Copy on write?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/copy-on-write/126021)

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**Author:** [@iago-lito](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iago-lito)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/copy-on-write/126021 "2025-02-18T17:19:17Z")

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Hello Julia, I need copy-on-write behaviour to protect fields of the large values I’m handing out to my users from cluttering their memory with useless copies. Is there such thing as a julia Cow{T} akin to rust’s Cow\<T\>…