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Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I



Il giorno sab, 14/04/2007 alle 18.37 +0200, Christian Perrier ha
scritto:
> > which means that if I install debian using Italian translations
> > (and thus using dejavu fonts, used by more than 40 languages), I "waste"
> > 5.2 Mb rather than just 660 Kb, which is crazy.
> > When using g-i, besides trimming templates.dat, we could delete unused ttf files.
> 
> 
> Should be possible, if we go the way of not allowing users to switch
> languages after a given step.

I think that most of users don't switch back language after they choise
one, I propose to split translation so that all languages are loaded
till languegechooser then only the selected language is loaded in
memory. 

> That would mean we have to keep track of which font is needed by what
> language. A new field in languagelist?

If we like to redure memory footprint of g-i this sound a good solution.

Bye
sc

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