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		TheChaplain on July 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020) Obviously one thing does not exclude the other, but the more processed data is before, the less has to be done later for every page retrieval. It surprises me that this seem unfamiliar these days?

kolinko on July 14, 2024 [–]

That is true only for simple systems that don't change often and that have a single view of the data.

For most real world use cases your approach is break even at best, and often way worse.

42lux on July 14, 2024 | [–]

You mean it's not suitable for the deploy every hour crowd it has nothing to do with complexity.

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