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Arrays are easier to work with when constructing messages, since they can be dynamically appended to. Hence the use of arrays for newly created, empty messages.

Tuples are faster because they're a fixed size, but they can't be resized once created. Hence the use of tuples in the deserializer, where all of the array sizes are already known.

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