Hi all, I've just blogged about a technique that I used to make jQuery.empty over 10x faster in some cases. Basically, rather than individually removing each child element from the DOM which causes the browser to reflow after each one, I use a shallow cloneNode to do the job then copying events back over. Check out the blog post for more details: http://devongovett.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/how-to-make-jquery-empty-over-10x-faster/. I've included some charts comparing the performance of jQuery 1.4's empty and html("") functions, as well as the function I've written, and the cloneNode method out performs all other methods by a significant amount in all browsers.
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