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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: why is fprintf(stderr,) slow?
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Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 16:47:43 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".

It *ought* to be "per call".  On many systems, in *fact* it is "per character".
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