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by gpderetta 2308 days ago
On the other hand you can't benchmark every single line of potentially problematic code and even if you could, syntetic tests are not reliable.

If by experience you know that a certain solution can be problematic and there is a different solution which has reasonable implementation costs, you should do what your experience tells you especially if fixing it after the fact would have significantly higher implementation costs.