What's it all about, Alfie?

Today I was spending a little time moving another of my little projects to GitPod, and I was amazed at the execution speed I was seeing, compared to my 2019 decked-out 16" MacBook Pro. I mean Wow! On my MacBook Pro, the test ran in:

  $ make test
  ./quip 'Fict O ncc bivteclnbklzn O lcpji ukl pt vzglcddp' -kb=t -fwords
  [31967 us] Solution: When I see thunderstorms I reach for an umbrella

which isn't bad... 31.9 msec. About what I get on the ObjC code as well. And when I ran it on the GitPod instance:

  gitpod /workspace/Quip $ make test
  ./quip 'Fict O ncc bivteclnbklzn O lcpji ukl pt vzglcddp' -kb=t -fwords
  [26967 us] Solution: When I see thunderstorms I reach for an umbrella

So the instances they are fronting are at least as good, if not better, in single-core performance, than my recent MacBook Pro. That's impressive. Another good reason to look at doing a little more coding remotely.

Sometime today, Robinhood updated their iOS client, it's really an iPhone client, as it doesn't use the iPad's screen effectively at all, and they went with a different look and feel to the lists and charts. I have to say, I like it.

Historically, the cryptocurrency graphs had a far more futuristic feel, that I thought was a little overdone - but hey... it's market data, so I can look past the scrolling background. The equities were always a little more traditional, and that makes some sense, I guess - but I liked those a lot more. Personal taste.

What pleased me was that the cryptocurrency charts looked a lot more like the equity charts, and that wasn't nearly as distracting to me. Again... just a preference.

There as also a font change, and the reease notes promise more changes to come... so that sounds like fun. I've been fortunate to see what little trading I do on Robinhood bounce back very quicky from the corona-crash of a couple of months ago. Strange times...

UPDATE: there was another update later in the day, and the cryptocurrency graphs are back to having the scrolling background. Oh well... 🙂