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why is passing a copy of array faster then reference array?

I was trying to compare the efficiency of the if statement compared to initialization of a loop in two basic code snippets where one snippet first compares the values first using if statement and then uses a while loop and the other snippet directly uses while loop to check statement. Using the code :

Python – checking if array of integers contains integer fails

As a background, I have a database that I’m currently checking for duplicates. I have a file that contains a list of ids that have more than 1 row counts, but the problem is, it also counts the duplicates for the duplicate rows. For example, if Row 1 has a duplicate in Row 2 and Row 3, it would also analyze Row 2 and say that there’s a duplicate in Row 1 and 3.