galleryimage plugin - performance?

[bpkri]

Well, maybe not really a bug, but something to consider:

The galleryevent plugin at the moment is causing http calls for every picture against the gallery.
Each time you try to load a picture in the browser be it via viewing the blog or one of the feeds.

Maybe it would be possible to cache the image-versions used (thumbnail, sized and fullsize) and use those instead of making http requests all the time?

[garvinhicking]

The problem of caching those, is that it easily leads to duplicated image files all over your host and might become quite large. People might not suspect that and wonder why they might run out of disk space on shared providers where you only have 100MB or so available...?!

Regards,
Garvin

[bpkri]

That indeed is a problem, as it truly would duplicate the images and thus use more space.