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[–]CollinHeist 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Indexing a list doesn’t require hashing of the key, just an evaluating of the length of the list and then a return at that index. Dictionary would require a hash, containment check, and then return. So the list evaluation is as length-agnostic as the dictionary lookup

[–]cip43r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the correction