MiniSlideShow is an interesting Flash plugin to display Gallery2 images on your website. One problem with this slide show is that generating an RSS feed takes time. The generation delay impacts the start of the slideshow, particularly if the slideshow is included as a sidebar block on every Gallery page or embedded application page. This can be particularly noticable if the feed contains many images. Each display of a new page results is a new invokation of the slideshow and this results in a new initialization of the RSS feed. One way to mitigate the feed generation performance loss is to cache the generated RSS feed XML text. [...]


