.mo file?

"Mathias (GER, Freeciv)" <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Mar 2022 11:31:50 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.games.freeciv.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When I open the translations file „de.po“ in Poedit, make changes and save it, another file is also generated and saved: „de.mo“.

It says „Kompilierte Übersetzung“ = "Compiled translation“ in macOS finder. See attached screenshot.

What’s that for?
Is that necessary for the process as well?



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Mathias