## What is Bark? `Bark` is a pointer type for reference-counted data similar to `Arc` or `Rc`. Unlike `Arc`, `Bark` only uses atomic operations when crossing threads, or when all `Bark`s on a thread are gone. This means that `Bark` is as cheap as an `Rc` when doing thread-local clones and drops, but once you send one to another thread, it'll start tracking that thread seperately and correctly updates the cross-thread reference count!