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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
(blog.codingconfessions.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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I could have tripped, knocked over my keyboard, cried for 13 straight minutes on the floor, picked my keyboard back up, accidentally hit the enter key making a graph and it would have made more sense than this thing.
-2x faster. What does that even mean?
There's probably an "import * from relativity" in there somewhere.