[jQuery] Multiple loads of page degrades performance(?)

[Joel S]

Hi all

I'm fairly new to jQuery, but have been playing with it for a couple
months.  This is my first post here.

I've got a page with a <table> where each cell has a div that gets
reloaded using load().  Each page that gets loaded into its cell also
needs to be able to reload -- preferably multiple/infinite times.

What I'm finding, however, is that after a few loads, the performance
degrades pretty significantly.  Is this an unavoidable side-effect of
reloading jquery multiple times on the same page?  Or is there a
better way to do this so that this doesn't happen?

I searched this list and found a thread from Sept '06 that said:
"multiple HTTP-Requests <snip> increases the overhead."  Is that what
I'm up against?

WHAT I'VE GOT:
- On my main page:
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$(document).ready(function() {
        $('a').click(function(){
                $(this).parents(".cell").load("load.html");
        });
});
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- My called/loaded page in its entirety is this:
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<p><a href="#">LOADED page</a></p>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        $('a').click(function(){
                $(this).parents(".cell").load("load.html");
        });
</script>
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I've got a demo page if that would be helpful, at:
jsfmp<dotcom>/jquery/ajaxtable.html

TIA,
-Joel