Re: Function to print a diamond shape

[Jay Norwood]

These were the times on ubuntu 64 bit dmd.  I added diamondShape, 
which is slightly modified to be consistent with the others .. 
just removing the second parameter and doing the writeln calls 
within the function, as the others have been done.  This is still 
with dmd.  I've downloaded ldc.

Also,  I posted the test code on dpaste.com/hold/1753517

brad: time: 20837[ms]
printDiamond1: time: 482[ms]
printDiamond2: time: 944[ms]
printDiamond3: time: 490[ms]
jay1: time: 62[ms]
sergei: time: 4154[ms]
jay2: time: 30[ms]
diamondShape: time: 3384[ms]

void diamondShape(in int N)
{
    import std.range : chain, iota, repeat;
    import std.algorithm : map;
    import std.conv : text;
    import std.string : center, format;
    import std.exception : enforce;
    dchar fillChar = '*';
    enforce(N % 2, format("Size must be an odd number. (%s)", N));

    foreach(ln;
                        chain(iota(1, N, 2),
                                  iota(N, 0, -2))
                        .map!(i => fillChar.repeat(i))
                        .map!(s => s.text)
                        .map!(s => s.center(N))) writeln(ln);
}