#7959 NORM 8.2.0 (: gettext translations slows journal's scrolling

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#7959: gettext translations slows journal's scrolling
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 Reporter:  riccardo       |         Owner:  cjb                 
     Type:  enhancement    |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal         |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  performance    |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:  blocks?:8.2.0  |   Next_action:  never set           
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                      
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 Quite a bit of time spent by the journal in the task of scrolling its
 listview goes to translating timestamps for its entries.
 See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-August/018028.html.

 This is because the python gettext implementation searches new mo files
 every time a new translations is `requested'.

 I attach a patch that avoids this. I'm not sure it will work in all cases;
 it works without any glitches (I could spot) in french and english.

 Still the python gettext implementation is very slow and spends almost all
 the time for every translation in abspath() and copy().

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