Good point! The loops, however, don't inspire the sort of confidence that would lead me to personally believe this person was concerned about data locality. I m

Good point! The loops, however, don't inspire the sort of confidence that would lead me to personally believe this person was concerned about data locality. I might be wrong though hehe I think that this is a good reminder, however, that there are few "absolutes" when it comes to programming and that there are always edge cases where some things that look like "code smells" or even look plain wrong have their place.