You can detect this case with profiling or other tools and then adjust it when appropriate. Having a less error-prone solution for the common case and then doi

You can detect this case with profiling or other tools and then adjust it when appropriate. Having a less error-prone solution for the common case and then doing something else when necessary is a great approach to software design so long as you don't run into the "something else" too often that you end up with two common idioms rather than one common idiom and some clear exceptions.