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by marcus_holmes 2121 days ago
>Yes. So?

There's a difference between compiled binary and uncompiled code. I guess if you're working in an interpreted language that never gets compiled, like Python, you might not notice the difference so much. But even then, this is not using an API for a separate service that exists on a different server. This is something that happens in your process.

> ...processes...

If your string processing library has to live in a separate process in order to sandbox it, then yes, you are creating more problems than you're solving.