Is there a way to increase the efficiency of shared_ptr by storing the reference count inside the controlled object?

Question

This is becoming a common pattern in my code, for when I need to manage an object that needs to be noncopyable because either A. it is \"heavy\" or B. it is an operating sys

Answer 1

you can save some overhead by simply getting rid of the two classes and having just one and typedefing a shared ptr to it - this is the idom i use all the time

 class Resource
 {
      ...
 };
 typedef boost::shared_ptr ResourcePtr;