# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
# Date 1166139120 21600
# Node ID 660504812daf9bd2ea7ddf33cba550d8e90b1f70
# Parent  57b797601b61d32feafbb69d516e71b674e32551
Enable gettext translations

The new demandimport eliminates most of the gettext performance hit of
importing gettext, which was doubling the run time for 'hg'.

Now, with 'hg tip':

dummy: .09530s no translations: .09638s translations: .09755s

diff --git a/mercurial/i18n.py b/mercurial/i18n.py
--- a/mercurial/i18n.py
+++ b/mercurial/i18n.py
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ This software may be used and distribute
 of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
 """
 
-# the import from gettext is _really_ slow
-# for now we use a dummy function
-gettext = lambda x: x
-#import gettext
-#t = gettext.translation('hg', '/usr/share/locale', fallback=1)
-#gettext = t.gettext
+import gettext
+t = gettext.translation('hg', fallback=1)
+gettext = t.gettext
+_ = gettext