> > 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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