Performance of raw pointers vs smart pointers in C++11 Davide Coppola October 13, 2016 16 Comments In this post I analyse and discuss the performance of raw pointers vs smart pointers in few C++11 benchmarks. The operations tested are creation, copy, data access and destruction. Benchmarks, C++ benchmark, C++, C++11, cpp, performance, pointer, raw pointer, shared_ptr, smart pointer, STD, test, unique_ptr