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Sn3llius
632 days ago
List access is O(1), which effectively makes them arrays :)
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Phrodo_00
632 days ago
Maybe if you don't consider CPU architecture, but most would expect to be able to do loops over Arrays that don't incur in a lot of cache misses, and Python Lists don't do that, since they're actually arrays of pointers to heap memory.
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