[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17268: Use native gettext library when available

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#17268: Use native gettext library when available
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 Reporter:  linushoppe                           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
                                                 |  Release
Component:  I18N                                 |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-refresh needs-unit-  |     Focuses:
  tests dev-feedback                             |  performance
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Comment (by colinleroy):

 Replying to [comment:111 swissspidy]:

 Hi,

 > The latter turned out to be the most promising approach and now we want
 to test it at a wider scale using a dedicated plugin, appropriately named
 [https://wordpress.org/plugins/performant-translations/ Performant
 Translations].

 Thanks for working on this. I have given Performant Translations a look
 and it's promising. (I'm the author of Native Gettext and I'd love to be
 able to drop it).

 However, profiling shows that Performant translations is still much more
 CPU-intensive than Native Gettext is. On a reference page, I get
 - 78M cycles in mo.php
 - 21M cycles in Performant Translations' translatable-object.php
 - 3.5M cycles in NativeGettext's class-native-mo.php (it does count cycles
 spent in the native PHP extension)

 I think Performant Translations is much better than what actually exists
 in the core, and should replace the existing core's translation system.
 But I also think it is not fast enough, and as each cycle is energy, it is
 our responsability as web developers working on The Engine That Powers 40%
 of the internet to do the best we can. This inefficiency probably
 translates to terawatts-hour.

 Reference profiles available at (I couldn't find how to attach files):
 https://colino.net/tmp/no-translation-plugin.cachegrind
 https://colino.net/tmp/performant-translations.cachegrind
 https://colino.net/tmp/native-gettext.cachegrind

 Hope this helps!

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