Re: Emacs i18n

[Juri Linkov]

>> ‘format-message’ should check if its first argument is translated,
>> and not to call gettext again.
>>
> I'd rather not involve dynamic checking like that, as it's fragile and
> more complicated to explain and a bit slower. format-message should
> either always translate, or never translate. In practice, it'll be more
> convenient for format-message to always translate, so I expect we should
> do it that way.

I see this as a kind of optimization.  But I don't know if it is necessary
until trying how fast gettext is on very large translation files
(if it hashes translations strings then should be fast enough).