pythonIn [77]: %%timeit
...: xs = []
...: xs.append(1)
...:
71.9 ns ± 1.01 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)
In [78]: %%timeit
...: xs = set()
...: xs.add(1)
...:
141 ns ± 0.457 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)