PSEUDO

PSEUDO

hi,
i recently upgraded the jquery-core from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2. to my suprise i noticed a big slowdown. in firefox the slowdown is minor but still measurable on some pages, but in ie8 it's really big. so i used dynaTrace to have a look.

the biggest difference i noticed immediatly is the number of invocations of PSEUDO. in jquery 1.3.2 it's 3678 and in 1.4.2 it's 22253. some other functions are also slower, but the difference isn't so obvious.

can anyone explain this?

i attached to screenshots from the hotspot-tab in dynaTrace.

jquery 1.3.2

jquery 1.4.2