> most prominently, shared_ptr Is the 'prominent' conclusion part of the analysis (I couldn't find anything in the post), or just conjecture? Anecdotally I see

> most prominently, shared_ptr Is the 'prominent' conclusion part of the analysis (I couldn't find anything in the post), or just conjecture? Anecdotally I see unique_ptr far more often than shared_ptr, but I would be interested in hard stats on which is more commonly used.