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I hadn't noticed this until someone actually loaded up a dataset of 1k entries today and it made the browser croak. Firefox: DOM Creation Test * jQuery: 1.323 * Normal: 0.128 DOM Creation Test (with vars assigned) * jQuery: 1.026 * Normal: 0.128 Safari 3: DOM Creation Test jQuery: 0.333 Normal: 0.016 DOM Creation Test (with vars assigned) jQuery: 0.334 Normal: 0.016 Is there any reason its so much slower to use jQuery for DOM manipulation?