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"For 95% of all code that is correct. std::make_* is easy to use and prevents a lot of mistakes, while having no loss of performance."

For 95% of code std::unique_ptr has no loss of performance. Perhaps. Just remember that it is not a zero-cost abstraction, the compiler won't always be able to entirely eliminate the overhead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIkrotSwcc

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I watched that about 7 years ago when it first came out, and at an hour long I'm not about to watch it again... From what I can recall those are things that rarely are important. There is a cost, but in most real world code they only add a few nanoseconds - I have more important things to worry about.

As a firmware developer commonly operating on devices with 32MHz of cpu, i am offended sir.

Even at 32Mhz you typically have more important things to worry about. These nanoseconds are unlikely to add up - the overhead from the underlying new/delete is going to be much worse.

If your doing firmware you probably shouldn't be doing much memory allocation at runtime anyway to prevent memory fragmentation.

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