- now that I re-examined the code, the note in commit 51fd6327a6
can be mostly ignored
PackedList isMaster(nPoints, 1u);
is not really inefficient at all, since the '1u' is packed into
32/64-bits before the subsequent assignment and doesn't involve
shifts/masking for each index
The same misinformation applies to the PackedList(size, 0u) form.
It isn't much slower at all.
Nonetheless, add bool specialization so that it is a simple assign.