Le 18/12/2018 à 23:09, Barry Scott a écrit :
On 18 Dec 2018, at 09:10, Serge Ballesta via Python-ideas
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
In a project of mine, I have used the gettext module from Python
Standard Library. I have found that several tools could be used to
generate the Machine Object (mo) file from the source Portable Object
(one): pybabel (http://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/), msgfmt.py from
Python tools or the original msgfmt from GNU gettext.
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Before going further, I would like to know whether implementing lazy
access through the hash table that way seems to be a interesting
improvement or a dead end
I think about it this way.
Based on the largest project I have worked on that was internationalised
into
14 languages the British English text translated to American English
(en-US) created a 350KiB MO file.
The largest mo file was for Thai (th-TH) at 680KiB.
Is it worth the complexity of the hash code to save that memory?
The hash code is not that complex. The main problem was that it is not
documented except in the source code.
Will the hash code improve the load time?
We never noticed the load time and we reloaded the MO on ever web page
access.
As for FDs it uses 1 and on my linux system I have 1.6M to play with.
Barry
What make me think that it deserves a try is that it is the way it is
implemented in original GNU gettext, and that a TODO note said it should
be considered. But the documentation also explains that the hash table
is optional...
Serge
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