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Existing search tools on Windows suck. Even with an SSD, it’s painfully slow. So I built a prototype of Nowgrep. It bypasses most of the slow Windows nonsense, and just parses the raw NTFS. On an SSD, this ends up faster than ripgrep, even on a cached run (Nowgrep bypasses most Software caching). Demo: Filtering 2 million and searching ~270K files under C:/ for the substring "Hello". I have many ideas to make these an even smoother experience. Let me know if this is interesting, and I might pursue it further to make a shippable product with good UX.
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Existing search tools on Windows suck. Even with an SSD, it’s painfully slow. So I built a prototype of Nowgrep. It bypasses most of the slow Windows nonsense, and just parses the raw NTFS. On an SSD, this ends up faster than ripgrep, even on a cached run (Nowgrep bypasses most Software caching). Demo: Filtering 2 million and searching ~270K files under C:/ for the substring "Hello". I have many ideas to make these an even smoother experience. Let me know if this is interesting, and I might pursue it further to make a shippable product with good UX.

Charlie Malmqvist

486,817 views • 11 months ago

Ripgrep is slow. Nowgrep is fast, because I bypass the Windows slop and go straight to NTFS. Here's Ripgrep vs. Nowgrep searching through 300k files on a drive with 2M+. Nowgrep is written from scratch in C99. No borrow checker.
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Ripgrep is slow. Nowgrep is fast, because I bypass the Windows slop and go straight to NTFS. Here's Ripgrep vs. Nowgrep searching through 300k files on a drive with 2M+. Nowgrep is written from scratch in C99. No borrow checker.

Charlie Malmqvist

305,541 views • 10 months ago

I have decided to ship Nowgrep. A first Windows Beta will be released on 21th of November. Hold me accountable. Goals for first release: - Caching/content indexing to make searching even faster - Clean, good looking, and snappy UX - Minimal, standalone .exe file (aiming for < 0.5MB) - Very low memory/CPU usage - Fallback support for non-NTFS file systems, at reasonable speeds I will try to keep you updated: (or follow me here)
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I have decided to ship Nowgrep. A first Windows Beta will be released on 21th of November. Hold me accountable. Goals for first release: - Caching/content indexing to make searching even faster - Clean, good looking, and snappy UX - Minimal, standalone .exe file (aiming for < 0.5MB) - Very low memory/CPU usage - Fallback support for non-NTFS file systems, at reasonable speeds I will try to keep you updated: (or follow me here)

Charlie Malmqvist

50,320 views • 11 months ago

Nowgrep sneak peak: New UI written from scratch, CPU rendered. I many plans for UX features and designs that I want to try. Let me know if you have any feature requests for the beta release. If you want to stay updated on Nowgrep go to
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Nowgrep sneak peak: New UI written from scratch, CPU rendered. I many plans for UX features and designs that I want to try. Let me know if you have any feature requests for the beta release. If you want to stay updated on Nowgrep go to

Charlie Malmqvist

11,598 views • 10 months ago

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