Maybe, for business reasons, you're limited to an XML-based translation adapter. Or perhaps you'd like to speed things up even more. Or perhaps you want to make l10n operations faster. How can you do this?
Both Zend_Translate and Zend_Locale
implement caching functionality that can greatly affect
performance. In the case of each, the major bottleneck is
typically reading the files, not the actual lookups; using a
cache eliminates the need to read the translation and/or
localization files.
You can read about caching of translation and localization strings in the following locations: