[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41305: Add lazily evaluated translations

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#41305: Add lazily evaluated translations
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 Reporter:  schlessera   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N         |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |     Focuses:  performance
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Comment (by jdgrimes):

 Ultimately, I see the bigger underlying problem as being a design flaw in
 many of the APIs where the translation functions are used. The ideal would
 have been to design the code so that it did not have to worry about the
 translations at all until it actually needed them. However, that is now
 water under the bridge, and although we could take this into account when
 designing future code, introducing these lazy functions is probably worth
 the immediate performance gains.

 A better design of the code to start with would likely also decrease
 memory, whereas the lazy approach actually increases it overall in some
 cases, although it appears that the memory increase is reasonably small
 based on the numbers in the OP. I assume that memory consumption would
 still be only minimally more than it presently is even if the lazy
 functions were used by most plugins, but that might also be worth some
 consideration and investigation. In cases where a text domain did not have
 to be loaded at all (i.e., the translations were never actually used),
 memory might actually be decreased.

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