Benefits of compiling po files to mo
问题 What's the benefit and primary reason for compiling GNU gettext .po (Portable Object) files to .mo (Machine Object) ? I saw many programs reading/parsing .po directly. I'm not using wordpress but on their docs it says: https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers PO files are compiled to binary MO files, which give faster access to the strings at run-time Is faster access true? PO can be read only once and cached in some hash table, the same probably goes for MO 回答1: There are