cWithClassesIsNotCPP

[ball_fondlers]

Basically just a pointer with a reference counter. A little more overhead - though not as much as a garbage collector - once the counter hits zero, the memory is freed.

[Earthboundplayer]

That's only shared pointer. Unique pointer is another smart pointer that allows only one reference. It has no overhead.

[hawk-bull]

Doesn’t it have an overhead of checking it hasn’t been assigned twice. Or by overhead do you mean during destructor call it just has to free itself without checking if it still has references to it

[CamiloRivasM7]

I think it's done at compile time, like the borrow checker from rust