Re: Low memory hacks

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:26 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
<snip>
> Some messages do not get translated, so you see in the translations
> files things like
> 
> msgid "DEFAULT"
> msgstr "DEFAULT"
> 
> This is convenient, because in the statistics you can see the app
> fully translated.
> 
> This also means that the MO file will still have an entry for these
> two. Going through the MO files and removing these few occurrences
> will free a bit of disk space, but also memory.
> For some locales such as en_GB, this can account to about 14MB of MO
> files while the real space should be close to 2MB.

We do this to look good in the translation stats (and know when to
update the translations, which is a pretty big point).

I'll like to see some real numbers on the memory usage instead of
numbers being thrown around.