Regarding the question of pre-calculating it. Yes, you theoretically can precalculate the anisotropic filtering. It would almost certainly never be useful to do so. Because the sampling and filtering of a texture are dependent on your view of it, it would only be something that you would do if the result were intended to be perfectly static onscreen with only a view that is known in advance. If that's true, then you probably wouldn't be drawing it in 3D with OpenGL in the first place.
Most modern hardware can do that sort of filtering pretty quickly, but if you really are getting unacceptable performance because of it, you can try disabling it to optimise the speed. I imagine that you will likely be more disappointed in the quality of the rendering that impressed with the increase in speed.