Resolve writer performance degradation #5465

Job	Run time
lint/style-and-typos	1m 38s
linux/3.8/bare-env	8s
linux/3.8	12m 53s
linux/3.9	12m 53s
linux/3.10	12m 55s
linux/3.11	12m 54s
linux/3.12	12m 55s
osx/3.8	12m 54s
osx/3.9	12m 55s
osx/3.10	12m 54s
osx/3.11	12m 53s
osx/3.12	12m 52s
win/3.9	1s
win/3.10	8m 50s
win/3.11	12m 44s
win/3.12	12m 39s
linux/3.11/conda	12m 52s
linux/3.10/mpi	8m 8s
linux/3.11/singletest	12m 52s
linux/3.10/cython	12m 53s
win/3.8/pip	8m 36s
linux/3.8/slim	3m 55s
linux/3.9/pyutilib	12m 54s
linux/pypy-3.9	12m 53s
process-coverage-${{ matrix.TARGET }}	1s
	4h 10m 2s

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