Function to print a diamond shape

[Jay Norwood]

On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 17:30:20 UTC, bearophile wrote:

>
> 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

Yes, this is just for my own education.   My builds are using the 
dmd compiler on windows, and some  posts indicate I should expect 
better optimization currently with the ldc compiler... so maybe 
I'll get on a linux box and retest with ldc.