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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #39053, comment 7

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7	7	On user POSTed values or GET query parameters? Do we use it again very late in `$wpdb` before database writes occur? If all we want to do is make sure a numeric variable is within the boundaries of what's allowed inside a `BIGINT(20) unsigned` database column, does it make sense to do that high-up in user-land or deep in the kernel?
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	9	If it's as a replacement for `absint()` or `intval()`, it may cause breakage if third-party code does not already discriminate between negative numbers and suddenly core changes the value mid-request.
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9	11	We wouldn't want to use it everywhere, because function calls are slower than simple type-casts, and add to that the additional mathematical comparison logic against known large integers, and there's not a ton of value in repeatedly checking that every object's ID is a sane value.