Yes, I would agree that more logic increases runtime, but from your example, are you saying that grep should be faster? Please explain your example, so I understand you clearly.
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Personally, I have no idea how grep, map, or ~~ all work "under the hood". In your syntax, I see grep and map both iterating over the list, so my guess was they would have performed equally. I was surprised at my results.