Using make_shared() over manual construction has multiple advantages:
- It's shorter to write and easier to read.
V1: auto sb = shared_ptr<Foo>(new Foo());
V2: auto sb = make_shared<Foo>();
- The type "Foo" is repeated less often (less code duplication, lower
risk of forgetting to update one of the "Foo"s upon copy-paste etc.)
- Manual construction leads to two individual allocations (actual data and
the control block of the shared_ptr). Using make_shared() will only lead
to one allocation, which has performance, cache-locality and memory
consumption benefits.
- It's exception-safe, whereas manual construction is not necessarily: