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I've heard that in modern C++, smart pointers are preferred to raw pointers for ownership (the so-called RAII principle, as I understand it). This makes sense, and since then I've always used them...
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Alexei
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Moshi
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2022-08-21T05:20:00Z (over 2 years ago)
Is there any benefit to using new?
I've heard that in modern C++, smart pointers are preferred to raw pointers for ownership (the so-called RAII principle, as I understand it). This makes sense, and since then I've always used them throughout my projects. This makes me realize though, that I can't really remember the last time I've used `new` to allocate anything and have started to wonder if it's actually useful anymore. In what (if any) situations are there benefits in using `new` to allocate memory over `std::make_unique` or `std::make_shared`?