I understand that shared pointers work by counting references and releasing the object the pointer is pointing to. But the shared pointer takes space itself, is it released somehow? is there a pool of shared pointers and they are reused? is this something easy to track in the library source code?.
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The place where you store the shared pointer is up to you, the same way any other variable.
For instance, if you have it as a local variable in a function, then it will likely be held in the stack.
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