Chad Perrin wrote in post #1067210:

> Is the j there in some attempt to simulate a case where the loop
> increment variable is not redundant with the operations taking place
> within the loop?

Yes -- I wanted to "do something" in the loop, so I incremented a 
counter.  I admit it's a crappy benchmark; I wanted something simple but 
not completely trivial.

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