New jQuery release - 1.1.4: fantastic acceleration!

On August 24, a new release of the popular jQuery JavaScript library was released: jQuery-1.1.4 . This is probably the last release from the 1.1.x branch and release 1.2 will be released in September.

• significant (several times) increase in speed compared to the previous release
• instead of the operators '$' and 'jQuery', you can use any name to refer to JQ functions.
• the ability to use multiple versions of JQ on one page, calling them differently
• ability to embed jq in other js libraries

Performance Comparison:

$ ("# Id") Improvements

IE 6	651ms	70ms	830%
Firefox 2	1355ms	27ms	4919%
Safari 3	101ms	14ms	620%
Opera 9	270ms	62ms	335%
Average improvement:			1676%

$ ("Elem") Improvements

IE 6	661ms	451ms	47%
Firefox 2	1717ms	143ms	1100%
Safari 3	99ms	83ms	nineteen%
Opera 9	226ms	198ms	14%
Average improvement:			295%

.each () Improvements

IE 6	200ms	30ms	567%
Firefox 2	468ms	29ms	1514%
Safari 3	17ms	11ms	54%
Opera 9	45ms	25ms	80%
Average improvement:			554%

DoJo and YUI implementation example:

  // With the Dojo Toolkit
 dojo.jquery = jQuery.noConflict (true);
 dojo.jquery ("# ​​elem div"). slideDown ("slow");
 // or with Yahoo UI
 YAHOO.query = jQuery.noConflict (true);
 YAHOO.query ("span.hidden"). RemoveClass ("hidden"); 

Details, downloads, a list of closed bugs and a description of the test - click the link at the beginning of the topic.