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I'm working on the fasterTrim plug-in and I'm wondering why passing in custom options slows it down so much.

Here's a comparison of running the function as many times as possible in 1000ms to show what I mean:

1. $.fasterTrim.trim( " lorem ipsum " )

vs:

1. $.fasterTrim.trim( " lorem ipsum ", {} )

   
* Firefox 3.6:  170,232  vs  46,147
* IE 8:          69,371  vs  25,226
* Chrome 4.1:   837,572  vs  56,073
* Safari 4.0.4: 172,995  vs  82,950
* Opera 10.10:   67,934  vs  32,938

Does the code to process the options add that much overhead?

1. options = jQuery.extend( {}, jQuery.fasterTrim.defaultOptions, options );

Links: plugin , source , demo , previous discussion .

--Travis

For some reason my comments don't show up on GitHub. For example on this commit:
http://github.com/dieseltravis/jquery/commit/56dec13e279fbb7c06155e93c2f5ff5d073489ce#comment_44576

There are comments from Ralph and John. But if you click the little bubble to the left of the code, then click "All" in the top right of that dialog you can see that I've made comments that are hidden for some reason.

Do I accidentally have something set that hides my comments?

--Travis