This library was tweaked for best performance for single use - translating application with many strings using mo file. Current benchmarks show it's about four times faster than original php-gettext.
There are two benchmark scripts in the code:
benchmark-context.php- benchmarks context usagebenchmark-plural.php- benchmarks plural evaluationbenchmark.php- benchmarks file parsing
The performance improvements based on individual changes in the code:
| Stage | Seconds |
|---|---|
| Original code | 4.7929680347443 |
| Remove nocache | 4.6308250427246 |
| Direct endian | 4.5883052349091 |
| Remove attribs | 4.5297479629517 |
| String reader | 1.8148958683014 |
| No offset | 1.2436759471893 |
| Less attribs | 1.1722540855408 |
| Remove shift | 1.0970499515533 |
| Magic order | 1.0868430137634 |