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<div id="performance.localization" class="section"><div class="info"><h1 class="title">Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)</h1></div>
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Internationalizing and localizing a site are fantastic ways to expand
your audience and ensure that all visitors can get to the information
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Not all translation adapters are made equal. Some have more
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Zend Framework ships with a variety of translation adapters.
Fully half of them utilize an <acronym class="acronym">XML</acronym> format, incurring memory and
performance overhead. Fortunately, there are several adapters
that utilize other formats that can be parsed much more
quickly. In order of speed, from fastest to slowest, they are:
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<em class="emphasis">Array</em>: this is the fastest, as it is, by
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<em class="emphasis"><acronym class="acronym">CSV</acronym></em>: uses
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<em class="emphasis">Gettext</em>: The gettext adapter from Zend Framework
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specifying more than one locale per server. As a result, it
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If high performance is one of your concerns, we suggest
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Maybe, for business reasons, you're limited to an <acronym class="acronym">XML</acronym>-based
translation adapter. Or perhaps you'd like to speed things up even
more. Or perhaps you want to make l10n operations faster. How can
you do this?
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<div class="section" id="performance.localization.cache.usage" name="performance.localization.cache.usage"><div class="info"><h1 class="title">Use translation and localization caches</h1></div>
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Both <span class="classname">Zend_Translate</span> and <span class="classname">Zend_Locale</span>
implement caching functionality that can greatly affect
performance. In the case of each, the major bottleneck is
typically reading the files, not the actual lookups; using a
cache eliminates the need to read the translation and/or
localization files.
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You can read about caching of translation and localization
strings in the following locations:
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<a href="" class="link"><span class="classname">Zend_Translate</span>
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