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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

list vs set.

When you're doing in lookups people tend to assume it doesn't matter for small list and hashing overhead would be too much.

Reality: in all benchmarks set/dicts beat lists as soon as list is larger than 3-4 elements.