Journal activity profiling

[riccardo]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 18:02 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM, riccardo <riccardo.lucchese at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:13 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, riccardo <riccardo.lucchese at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
< ... >
> >> > I find interesting to note that 28.5% of the total time goes to
> >> > `get_date' of Journal.activity/misc.py because of the ngettext overhead.
> >> > Perhaps translations could be cached ?
> >>
> >> Totally, but caching should already happen inside python's gettext:
> >>
> >> http://svn.python.org/view/python/tags/r251/Lib/gettext.py?rev=54864&view=markup
> >>
> >> If that isn't working for any reason, we would need to cache it
> >> locally in sugar.util. Can you check it is slow in Spanish as well?
> >> You may have found a very nice low hanging fruit ;)
> >
> > I can see similar percentages with spanish (perù) translations ;)
> >
> > Note that only the comboboxes entries get translated, the timestamp gets
> > always shown in english.
> 
> Ouch, that's bad. What I think it's going on is that missing
> translations are not cached, so any missing translation will go all
> the way down again and again.
> 
> We need to check why we are not picking up the translations. Can you
> enter a ticket for 8.2.0 and make it a blocker? Would be nice if you
> can already tell where's the problem - and a patch would be awesome ;)
> 
Translations seem to be cached to me; I think the point is that for
every translation gettext.py searches new mo files.


riccardo