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…
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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.…
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…
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 Guide Never Write to the Original — Four Habits for Working With Logs
You opened it. It grew by three bytes. That log file — is it still the same file after you read it? Operations…
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 Guide Automating Log Retention — Writing Generation Rules and a Housekeeping Policy That Survive
Three years of logs were gone. That retention rule you automated — when did you last look at it? A rule nobody…
Technical Guide Log Investigation Lives in One Person’s Head — Four Habits of a Team That Can Hand It Over
The handover note was three lines long. The query you built yesterday — could anyone else rebuild it right now…
Tech uvp vs rg and sed, 81 checks — the script’s run log (3 GB / 10 GB / 50 GB)
[Update, 16 October 2026] Speed today — the 3 GB second-run items uvp used to lose are now wins or on par The…
Technical Guide The Morning the Monthly Batch Died — Four Realities of Running a Data Pipeline
line 48,213,996. That's all you got. Can you look at that line right now? The pipeline hands you a coordinate.…