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Author	Fred
Recipients	Fred, jwilk, remi.lapeyre, rhettinger, xtreak
Date	2022-02-18.20:51:43
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Message-id	<1645217503.71.0.315060853772.issue35897@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> For subtle reasons, that would make us worse off. Tuple of constants get precomputed but lists of constants have to be rebuilt. So if a list is 20 times slower than a tuple, I can still do billions of computations in a second on a Raspberry Pi, so does it matter? Being able to pass a list into .startswith() makes it more user-friendly and makes Python be more productive for the developer.

> For subtle reasons, that would make us worse off.  Tuple of constants get precomputed but lists of constants have to be rebuilt.

So if a list is 20 times slower than a tuple, I can still do billions of computations in a second on a Raspberry Pi, so does it matter?

Being able to pass a list into .startswith() makes it more user-friendly and makes Python be more productive for the developer.

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