If i remember a past discussion about this correctly, if you're going to update all, or at least a large percentage, of the sprites you have in a batch each frame, then it doesn't matter; otherwise, go for the second one.
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I'm updating most of them right now, so I could see no difference between the two solutions in performance. Later there will be situations when only a few will be updated, so I guess the best is the pseudo remove version.