I’d say your third option is the way to go.
Incidentally, why did you roll your own static cache in taxonomy_image_plugin_get_associations() instead of using the built-in WP_Cache API for that? Is there a reason wp_cache_get wouldn’t work here? Seems like using the WP object cache would optimize better when people do have caching plugins turned on.
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