You're right, my example was different. But upon fixing it to match the original article's example, but with jQuery creating the dom nodes, it is still slower

You're right, my example was different. But upon fixing it to match the original article's example, but with jQuery creating the dom nodes, it is still slower http://jsfiddle.net/EmEhRKay/YNxEK/13/ http://jsfiddle.net/EmEhRKay/YNxEK/13/