why is fprintf(stderr,) slow?

[Brent P. Callaghan]

> 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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