Vanity, Vanity, all is Vanity

        Results:
        Benchmark: timing 10000000 iterations of CODE A, CODE B, CODE C, CODE 
        D...
            CODE A: 39 wallclock secs 
                (38.50 usr +  0.00 sys = 38.50 CPU) @ 259740.26/s (n=10000000)
            CODE B: 42 wallclock secs 
                (42.57 usr +  0.00 sys = 42.57 CPU) @ 234907.21/s (n=10000000)
            CODE C: 93 wallclock secs 
                (91.94 usr +  0.00 sys = 91.94 CPU) @ 108766.59/s (n=10000000)
            CODE D: 43 wallclock secs 
                (42.13 usr +  0.00 sys = 42.13 CPU) @ 237360.55/s (n=10000000)

Does anyone see anything strange here?
(The 0.00 system time is not an anomaly)
- (This benchmark was run on a Windows system)