Technical Guide The Day We Wrote “This Is Not a Speed Tool” — Breaking Down 205 Seconds by How Many Times We Read the File
205 seconds, to search 50 GB. "This is not a speed tool. If you have ripgrep, use ripgrep." We wrote that ours…
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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.…