Strange counter-performance in an alternative `decimalLength9` function

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 15:29:02 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 08:52:09 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> I will post my code if there is any meaningful difference in 
> your subsequent results.

give me something I can compile and verify. I'm not there to 
steal, if you found something you can still propose it to the 
repos that would take advantage of the optim.