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Posted by Al on 01/02/06 16:52
Dave M G wrote:
> Thank you for the advice.
> The point was raised, and it's a good one, that if I'm getting content
> from the database for most pages, then attaining the necessary
> translations probably won't make a difference.
> And of course, it is true that at my current levels of hits, the server
> load is negligible. But, of course, one always hopes that site
> popularity will increase and justify the efforts of making it efficient.
> I think I am going to database the translations for now, and then later
> if need be, I will go with the suggestions of creating a list of
> variables from the database once a day with a cron job.
>
> I appreciate all the help people have given to let me understand the
> issue.
>
> --
> Dave M G
If you are that concerned, I'd suggest making a test script with both approaches and measure the execution times.
The performance difference may depend on on the DB server performance. On a previous shared webhost, I found the mySQL
server was incredibly slow, so simple files were much faster.
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