On 29/04/20 11:32 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
My reasoning was that *eventually* for a big enough list, the cost of
making the copy would outweigh the cost of moving the items. I don't
know if my reasoning was valid or not,

I think it's not. They're both O(n) in the length of the list,
so at most they will differ by a constant factor for large n.

--
Greg
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