[jQuery] page rendering time comparison on large datasets

[jQuery] page rendering time comparison on large datasets


I'm loading an XML fiel to build a result matirx.
version 1 uses jQuery and DOM insertion with $.append() - 200 rows/9
columns take about 2500ms to render
version 2 uses plain old JS with document.write() - 200 rows/9 columns
take about 300ms to render
Is this expected due to the abstraction layer of the jQuery library?