According to this question, I checked the performance on my laptop.
Surprisingly, I found that pop(0) from a list is faster than popleft() from a deque stucture:
python -m timeit 'l = range(10000)' 'l.pop(0)'
gives:
10000 loops, best of 3: 66 usec per loop
While:
python -m timeit 'import collections' 'l = collections.deque(range(10000))' 'l.popleft()'
gives:
10000 loops, best of 3: 123 usec per loop
Moreover, I checked the performance on jupyter finding the same outcome:
%timeit l = range(10000); l.pop(0)
10000 loops, best of 3: 64.7 µs per loop
from collections import deque
%timeit l = deque(range(10000)); l.popleft()
10000 loops, best of 3: 122 µs per loop
What is the reason?