Use gettext for Localization
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Rob
Greeble's current localization method loads hundreds of strings into a global array at runtime. This is costly and unnecessary. The benefit of this method is that the strings are easy to change: it allows run-time changes to localization strings, it allows easy creation of a web interface for updating localization strings, and it does not require the developer to be familiar with yet another purpose-built syntax.
It may be that the performance hits outweigh these benefits enough for Greeble to switch to gettext.
Whiteboard
Current localization has negligible performance impact. It stays until there is further reason for changing it.
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