Why does passing in options slow down my code so much?
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: $.fasterTrim.trim( " lorem ipsum " )vs: $.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