Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: It's because of the cyclic garbage collector. If you call gc.disable() at the beginning of your benchmark, you'll see that runtimes get more similar in both cases. You can also use tuples instead of lists as much as possible, it will reduce pressure on the GC.
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