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Even more important than the backwards compatibility might
be the issue that it writes back all accessed objects on
close, which might be expensive if there have been many
read-only accesses.

So I think the option name could be also 'slow'; although
'writeback' might be more technical.

Also, I wonder whether write-back should be attempted if the
shelve was opened read-only.