id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blocking	blockedby
4004	Speed up DOM removal by decoupling event.remove and removeData	tr4nslator		"(as discussed [http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/5a1a124d773ed80d here] on jQuery dev)

All jQuery operations that remove DOM nodes (including $.fn.replaceWith, $.fn.empty, $.fn.html, and $.fn.text) use $.fn.remove internally to centralize processing for removing events and expando data.

Many of these methods could be made faster by decoupling element death from DOM removal: once elements are killed, they could be replaced using the fastest method: Node.prototype.innerHTML for $.fn.empty, and Node.prototype.replaceChild for $.fn.replaceWith (which is 20% faster than the current method of appending and then removing)."	enhancement	closed	major	1.3.2	core	1.3.1	fixed	dom remove