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From: brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Re: why is fprintf(stderr,) slow?
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Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 08:48:34 EDT
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> Standard error is unbuffered, eg, one char at a time, so it makes one
> write system call per character, hence its slowness.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Surely you mean "per call".

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