Description of problem: jq in RHEL8.6+ is much slow compared to jq1.5 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Rhel 8.6 jq 1.6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: [root@rhel8client ~]# jq --version jq-1.6 [root@rhel8client ~]# time for n in {1..100}; do echo '{"test":0}' | jq . >/dev/null; done real 0m3.769s user 0m3.520s sys 0m0.242s [root@rhel8client ~]# jq --version jq-1.5 [root@rhel8client ~]# [root@rhel8client ~]# [root@rhel8client ~]# [root@rhel8client ~]# time for n in {1..100}; do echo '{"test":0}' | jq . >/dev/null; done real 0m0.353s user 0m0.255s sys 0m0.140s Actual results: JQ1.6 is much slower than JQ1.5 Additional info: Upstream fixes : https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/2069 https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1826