From 9e53be159b897f0ea198208f945d35ed7e79488d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom French <tom@tomfren.ch>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:12:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: do not increment reference counts on arrays through
 references

---
 compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs
index f810b65d105..aebb47ccf8e 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/ssa/function_builder/mod.rs
@@ -442,13 +442,7 @@ impl FunctionBuilder {
         match self.type_of_value(value) {
             Type::Numeric(_) => (),
             Type::Function => (),
-            Type::Reference(element) => {
-                if element.contains_an_array() {
-                    let reference = value;
-                    let value = self.insert_load(reference, element.as_ref().clone());
-                    self.update_array_reference_count(value, increment);
-                }
-            }
+            Type::Reference(_) => (),
             Type::Array(..) | Type::Slice(..) => {
                 // If there are nested arrays or slices, we wait until ArrayGet
                 // is issued to increment the count of that array.