Tag Archive: unique_ptr

Performance of raw pointers vs smart pointers in C++11

Davide Coppola October 13, 2016 15 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