JQuery Tablesorter Plugin Performance

JQuery Tablesorter Plugin Performance

We are using JQuery 1.4.2 and tablesorter plugin. We have a table with hundreds of rows. Tablesorter has been applied on this table. I ran a profile using FireFox for a dataset of 234 rows and noticed the following things -




As you can see, appendToTable is taking the maximum amount of time and getElementText is being called 'infinitely'.

This is creating a huge issue for our application. Is there any quick solution for this (other than NOT using tablesorter) ?