Fastest way to uniqify a list in Python

Question

Fastest way to uniqify a list in Python without preserving order? I saw many complicated solutions on the Internet - could they be faster than simply:

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Answer 1

This updated post by Peter Bengtsson suggests two of the fastest ways to make a list of unique items in Python 3.6+ are:

# Unordered (hashable items)
list(set(seq))

# Order preserving
list(dict.fromkeys(seq))