[timje1]

Because that's expensive as hell and I didn't know if anyone would visit the site..

[epanchin]

Ideally you would save them as they were generated, and deliver the saved version the second time?

[timje1]

Yup, that's what happens. If you request a postcode that leads to an MP that's not been seen before, it starts generating that MP and saves the ongoing promise, and gives that promise to everyone else to asks for that MP.

Had to make sure to implement this so that I didn't end up generating duplicates.

[dom96]

Really? Does it really cost that much to generate a single image like this?

[timje1]

yeah to generate a photo of reasonable quality it costs like $.18, so multiply that by 650ish MPs and you have a pretty expensive lil parody site...