Quote Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
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I would be curious about the scalability, Pradeep: what results do you get if you run the loops for 10 times the values you have given in the original post? Does it scale and give the same relative difference?

I don't get the size of variation that you post; I posted your exact code into a new project.
I tried with increasing the loops to 10 times instead of 5. Here are the results:
Code:
One Line : 3812
Two Lines: 3705
One Line : 3818
Two Lines: 3702
One Line : 3807
Two Lines: 3700
One Line : 3808
Two Lines: 3700
One Line : 3809
Two Lines: 3696
One Line : 3806
Two Lines: 3699
One Line : 3811
Two Lines: 3701
One Line : 3808
Two Lines: 3703
One Line : 3810
Two Lines: 3700
One Line : 3809
Two Lines: 3698