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From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Re: why is fprintf(stderr,) slow?
Message-ID: <635@hropus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 14:53:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 19 14:53:08 1986
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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".

Nope, "per character" makes much more sense than "it makes one write system
call per call."
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