The current user defined string translation (i18nstrings) throws a new query for each new string to translate. This may be slow for pages with too many translatable strings. Some options to avoid this may be:
- Use the i18n_strings table (which is currently populated but not used) for preloading big chunks of strings, like all translations for terms in a vocabulary.
- Use full caching for some textgroups, like content types or profile fields and categories
- Implement array translations. Some function that may take an array of strings to translate, that may be loaded with a single query.
- Autocomplete fields for localized vocabularies may use new queries which load the translation along with the terms.

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drewish’s picture

We just upgraded to 1.5 from 1.0 and it's turned into a huge performance problem.

jose reyero’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

No more new features/improvements planned for 6.x. Still if anyone has a good performance patch, please reopen.