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There's pretty easy rules: stack unless it needs to outlive the current scope, or is very large. That covers 99% of cases.

But you realize that "it needs to outlive the current scope" is vague enough to support the statement that there's really no rule of thumb, right?

Seems pretty objective to me. When the current function returns, will this object ever get used again? Most of the time the answer is no.