UwView

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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
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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…
2026.09.25
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Technical Guide

Our -E Nearly Doubled the Time; ripgrep’s Didn’t — Part 4: Extracting Required Literals Took 50 GB -E From 13.68 s to 7.75 s

Only the regex path was slow. Same 50 GB file, same tool, same disk. The only difference is whether -E is on t…
2026.09.25
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Technical Guide

Our -i Was 4.3x Slower Than ripgrep — Part 3: Folding Case in Raw Bytes, With Exactly One Exception (2.72 s to 0.66 s)

Adding -i made it four times slower. Same file, same word. The only difference is whether case is ignored — an…
2026.09.24
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Technical Guide

We Made Our CLI as Fast as ripgrep on 50 GB — Part 2: Folding 2.5 Passes Into One (203 s to 50.82 s)

203 seconds became 50.82. We did not rewrite the hot loop, and we did not parallelise anything. The only thing…
2026.09.23
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Technical Guide

Our CLI Was 3.7x Slower Than ripgrep on a 50 GB File — Part 1: Measuring Where the 205 Seconds Went

205 seconds, to search 50 GB. "This is not a speed tool. If you have ripgrep, use ripgrep." We wrote that ours…
2026.09.22
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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
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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
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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…
2026.09.19
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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
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