[development] Improving Drupal performance using native gettext for translations

Pedro Lozano peterlozano at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 07:29:33 UTC 2011


Thanks Gábor,

I already submitted the patch yesrterday. http://drupal.org/node/1187084

Bests,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:36, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:

> Hi Pedro,
>
> The way to get improvements to Drupal core is to post your suggestion
> for improvement on the drupal.org issue queue. It is not like that
> Drupal core maintainers pick improvements from blogs of different
> people :) Please post your patch with a summary of your performance
> findings and pros/cons so it can be discussed on drupal.org. Let us
> know about the link to your drupal.org issue.
>
> Thanks for your work,
> Gábor
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Pedro Lozano <pedro at al.quimia.net> wrote:
> > Sorry,
> > Reference:
> > *
> http://al.quimia.net/en/blog/improving-drupal-performance-using-native-gettext-for-translations
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 16:39, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Where have you posted the patch?
> >>
> >> Gábor
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Pedro Lozano <peterlozano at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I'd like to know if anyone has ever experimented with making Drupal
> use
> >> > the
> >> > php gettext extension to retrieve the string translations from a
> binary
> >> > gettext file (.mo)?
> >> > We have recently made a patch that allows Drupal to do this. We
> >> > published a
> >> > blog post about it last week.
> >> > The pre-compile gettext file is created with "msgfmt -o messages.mo
> >> > drupal-es.po".
> >> > When you place it at sites/whatever/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo,
> >> > Drupal detects it and uses the gettext function to retrieve the
> >> > translations
> >> > from the file.
> >> > It improves performance even in a clean Drupal install.
> >> > Of course you loose the flexibility of the string translating
> interface
> >> > but
> >> > for sites with little changes to the translations and where
> performance
> >> > is
> >> > key this helps with hardware resources and scalability.
> >> > This week we will be at Barcelona Drupal Days and for the code sprint
> >> > we've
> >> > planned to make some kind of interface that allows you to generate the
> >> > .mo
> >> > file directly from Drupal.
> >> > Could this patch be proposed for D8, D7, D6, Pressflow?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Pedro Lozano
> >> > peterlozano at gmail.com | http://peterlozano.com
> >> > pedro at al.quimia.net | http://al.quimia.net
> >> > +34 ( 667836318 | 956396515 )
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pedro Lozano
> > peterlozano at gmail.com | http://peterlozano.com | +34 667836318
> > pedro at al.quimia.net | http://al.quimia.net | +34 956396515
> >
> >
>



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