A question regarding queries with multilanguage sites

[virgilr]

Hello to all! Very new here- I'm a developer at an agency and I have to touch on Joomla projects from time to time, albeit it's not my main development framework. I have a question regarding performance issues that seem to be related to a query.

I am working with a component that was previously developed that I've modified to my own needs. The site is running faLang for managing multilanguage content.

When I perform the query using the default language (not the alternative language) the query fires instantly and results are returned rapidly. However, when the query runs from a page in the alternate language, (in this case English, the default language is French) the query takes ~ 10 seconds before the results are returned. I noted this time period when viewing the debug queue that shows the time between joomla processes - I'm pretty sure the delay was between dispatch and route. Doing some searching points to this usually being a query issue.

Now, I simply modified the route definition (the component being used has a helper to define routes) after I created my own view (model, etc are all working properly). Perhaps this is an issue with the router that I just don't understand?

Any clues or ideas would be greatly appreciated!