Function to print a diamond shape

[bearophile]

Jay Norwood:

> A problem with the previous brad measurement is that his 
> solution creates a diamond of size 2n+1 for an input of n.  
> Correcting the size input for brad's function call, and 
> re-running, I get this.  So the various solutions can have 
> overhead computation time of 40x difference, depending on the 
> implementation.

The task didn't ask for a computationally efficient solution :-) 
So you are measuring something that was not optimized for. So 
there's lot of variance.

Bye,
bearophile