Technical Compressed logs are faster to search — seven formats measured at 1 GB and 3 GB
[Update, 16 October 2026] Speed today — re-measured with v1.9.0 "Full Spectrum" The uvf and uvp numbers in thi…
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Technical uvp’s First Question Got 6.7 s Faster — It No Longer Builds First and Searches Again (UwView Pro v1.6.6.1)
"The first question is about 20% slower than ripgrep" — that is what I was going to write. uvp, the UwView Pro…
Technical The Free uvf Holds Its Own Against Both ripgrep and klogg. uvp Earns Its Keep at the Second Question — One 51 GB File, Three Arenas
We spent three months measuring one 51.25 GB file on the same machines. The answer that came out was simpler t…
Technical We Lose to klogg on Opening. uvf Wins the Whole Run — Re-measured at 50 GB
If all you do is open a 51 GB file, klogg is faster. 52.55 s against 100.6 s. That one we lose. [Added 2026-09…
Technical ripgrep Is 2.9x Faster With no-mmap — Measured Against the Default mmap Read on One 51 GB File, on Three OSes
Searching a 51 GB file with ripgrep, adding --no-mmap can make it faster. On Windows, by up to 2.89×. On macOS…
Technical The UwView Window Caught Up With uvf … -open — 50 GB End to End, From 189.5 s to 53.7 s
[Correction, 21 Sept 2026] When this went up, the uvf … -open figure we compared against, 53.69 s, was the v1.…
Technical I Thought We Lost at 3 GB — Turns Out We’d Won (As Long as the Cache Is Cold)
A grep on 3 GB belongs to ripgrep if the file is in the cache. If it is not, it belongs to uvp. In the previou…
Technical Picking the one place to beat ripgrep — read 1/9 of the bytes, then hand the result from the CLI to the GUI
Update (17 Sep 2026): I thought we lost at 3 GB — turns out we'd won (as long as the cache is cold) This artic…
Technical Keep it as .uwvz instead of gzip — 1/9 the size, searchable in 7 seconds, and free to restore
This is a follow-up on where to keep logs you have finished reading. gzip makes them small, but searching mean…
Technical We shipped a uvp command — the same answers as ripgrep, 7× faster at 10 GB. And at 3 GB too, if the cache is cold
UwView Pro now has a uvp command you can call from the terminal. The free build has uvf. When you bolt a CLI o…