Re: Online translation tool?

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:18:30AM +0200, Dwayne Bailey wrote:
> Yes it doesn't use a database and parses files into memory (although
> we're caching much data in a database in current development work).  But
> of the people who use the system we have no complaints and of those
> who've stress tested it, they actually contributed performance fixes.  I
> guess what I'm saying is that performance issues are a nice theory and
> easily worked around when found by pushing data into a database...

Since when has reading po files off disk or parsing them been a highly
cpu demanding experience - it migth be in java but in C the cost of parsing
po files is tiny, maybe even less than the cost of filling the cache with 
some monster sql database and then putting back pootle.