Memcached CodeIgniter image manipulation class

[eluser]Anestetikas[/eluser]
Hello,

Is it possible to store dynamically created images in memcached?

I have a few million images of various formats, jpegs tiffs, pngs. File sizes differs from around 1 to 100mb. At the moment I'm creating thumbs and needed sizes for display from originals using CI image manipulation with dynamic_output = TRUE. But I want to store viewed images in Memcached for quicker acquisition, because same few images are being looked at multiple times by the same user in a short period of time and doing dynamic_output takes a lot of time and CPU resources.

I'm trying to fiddle with memcached to see if I can improve overall performance so what I did is:

At the moment I'm saving resized image to disk store it into memcached and delete it.

What I want is to skip the part of disk and store it to memcached directly from CI image manipulation class.

Can this be done?