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>    I am more concerned about preloading the entire contents of the
>    message catalogs into memory at once, rather than lazy-loading entries
>    as they are used.
>
>That is a good point.  What method do you propose for lazy-loading them?

What do you think about providing persistent hashtables, via gdbm or
berkeley db?