I'm writing a C++ game engine and I have a scene class that I'd like to present as a code example to a team who are interesting in my skills.

I'm interesting in the stylistic or functional improvements that could be made to improve this class, as well as any possible optimisations. In particular, I was told by an industry professional that smart pointers (like shared_ptr) are frowned upon in game engines because of instances where reference counting adds an over head. Is there truth in this?

I'm writing a C++ game engine and I have a scene class that I'd like to present as a code example to a team that is interested in my skills.

I'm interested in the stylistic or functional improvements that could be made to improve this class, as well as any possible optimisations. In particular, I was told by an industry professional that smart pointers (like shared_ptr) are frowned upon in game engines because of instances where reference counting adds an overhead. Is there truth in this?

I'm interesting in the stylistic or functional improvements that could be made to improve this class, as well as any possible optimisations.

I'm interesting in the stylistic or functional improvements that could be made to improve this class, as well as any possible optimisations. In particular, I was told by an industry professional that smart pointers (like shared_ptr) are frowned upon in game engines because of instances where reference counting adds an over head. Is there truth in this?