I don't know if there are any higher level differences, but I suspect the pure tuple version (the first) would be a little faster. Edit: Nope! Up to randomnes

I don't know if there are any higher level differences, but I suspect the pure tuple version (the first) would be a little faster. Edit: Nope! Up to randomness due to multitasking and paging, a benchmark on one million cases yields the same times, up to noise.