>> How is that even relevant? > What kind of a question is that? It's relevant, if you care about performance, reliability and code simplicity. The topic real

>> How is that even relevant? > What kind of a question is that? It's relevant, if you care about performance, reliability and code simplicity. The topic really was std::unique_ptr VS std::shared_ptr in the context of an introduction to modern C++... We are talking about standard best practices, not advanced high performance applications.