Optimize phrase access speed via public ETS about gettext

[etnt]

Lookup directly...hm I wonder if someone running gettext in a distributed setting where the server only runs on a specific node? I don't remember how Klarna (a big user of gettext) does.

[seriyps]

I think, it may be optional, by setting flags in gettext_server's process dictionary like

key2str(Server, Key, Lang) ->
    case proplists:get_value(public_table, erlang:process_info(Server, dictionary)) of
        undefined ->
            gen_server:call(Server, ...);
        Tid ->
            ets:lookup(Tid, ...)
    end.

Which is quite fast and don't require any message-passing.

[etnt]

I would be very cautious to add anything hidden under key2str/3 since it is really heavily called in large systems such as Klarnas. I don't like the proplists module at all, and doing a process_info call, involving another process, may have uncertain side effects (e.g being re-scheduled?).