Slow wide-character stream flush in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • A wide-character stream buffer with fputws() and/or fwprintf() output is written in 16 bytes increments in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9.
  • Due to 16bytes increments, flushing a wide-character stream performance is lower than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • glibc
  • wide-character stream

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