This, and if you're using shared_ptr heavily in C++, you're probably doing it wrong, since unique_ptr is usually sufficient. (You could say that shared_ptr has

This, and if you're using shared_ptr heavily in C++, you're probably doing it wrong, since unique_ptr is usually sufficient. (You could say that shared_ptr has the advantage that you don't have to think about who owns what, but with C++ there's no way around doing some amount of thinking about that, lest you get cycles.)