Hi,

I was playing a bit with the jquery source (1.4.3 RC1) and found that the "html:" function can be ~33% faster simply by removing the "shortcut" option...

here is the code part that i have now and is a consistently faster from 37ms to 21ms:

	html: function( value ) {
        if ( value === undefined ) {
            return this[0] && this[0].nodeType === 1 ?
                this[0].innerHTML.replace(rinlinejQuery, "") :
                null;
        } else if ( jQuery.isFunction( value ) ) {
            this.each(function(i){
                var self = jQuery(this);
                self.html( value.call(this, i, self.html()) );
            });

        } else {
            this.empty().append( value );
        }

		return this;
	},

Apparently something in the "shortcut" path was draining cycles?

Regards,

Mark