klogg

Technical Guide

What We Took From klogg, ripgrep, grep and PowerGREP — The Features UwView Borrowed From Other Tools, and the Ones We Deliberately Left Out (First Light to Full Spectrum)

UwView is built out of a long record of losing to other tools. It lost to klogg on a feature checklist, lost t…
2026.10.22
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

3.7x Behind ripgrep, 1.9x Behind klogg — Part 13 (Final): 50 GB Search 205 s to 51.70 s, Open 100.6 s to 50.44 s

Six percent. Still behind. The first search through a 50 GB log takes ripgrep 54.9–55.8 s and takes us 59.0 s.…
2026.09.28
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

mmap Cost Us Half the Disk — Part 10: 1.9x Behind klogg Until We Split Display (mmap) From Full Reads (pread)

We were getting 57% of the disk. An external USB SSD gives 927 MB/s under dd. Read the same 50 GB file from th…
2026.09.27
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

We Threw the CLI’s Results Away and Read 50 GB Twice — Part 6: One Temp File Cut End-to-End to 50.76 s (klogg: 108.14 s)

We were throwing the results away. Search a 50 GB file from the command line, then open the hits in the GUI. C…
2026.09.25
Technical Guide
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…
2026.09.21
Technical
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…
2026.09.20
Technical
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.…
2026.09.19
Technical
Technical Guide

Everything We Measured on Huge Files — Four Boundaries Where the Numbers Flip

The ceiling was 950 MB/s. That "N seconds" figure — at what file size, and on which attempt? Change either one…
2026.09.19
Technical Guide
Comparison

How to Open and Search a 50GB Log File on a 16GB PC

[Update, 16 October 2026] Speed today — the gap from the second search on is wider than before; the first sear…
2026.09.08
Comparison
Comparison

Search and Replace Only — EmEditor, klogg, grep, 010 Editor and UltraEdit at 3/10/48 GB, Windows and Mac Kept Separate

The AI grade sheet gave letter grades. This time I extract just two steps — search and replace — and put the a…
2026.09.07
Comparison
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