Well, I feel stupid. it's not the join that's taking so long, it's the $( "really big DOM string with 1,000 rows and 3 columns") that takes so dang long on IE7. After all of this rambling, does anyone have any options for me to try?
Sorry, for the self-dialog here. -Josh On Aug 7, 8:42 pm, Josh Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, FF2 performance is great at 500-600ms. IE7 is struggling with a > join of 1,000 elements to the tune of 70,000 ms! > Each array element contains a string, something like '<tr><td>1</ > td><td>2</td></tr>' > > Any advice is greatly appreciated. I still feel like a noob in > javascript sometimes. :( > > Josh > > On Aug 7, 3:40 pm, Josh Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working on a project that makes a web service call and pulls back > > data. Sometimes that data can be 1,000ish rows. What is the fastest > > way that I can create those rows? Right now I'm just doing string > > concatenation to make HTML and passing that to the .append method. I > > read the other day where someone(Klaus?) said that array.join was a > > faster way to do string concatenation. > > > I'd like to avoid the string concats all together if there is a faster > > method. I'm just poking around for ideas. > > > Thanks > > Josh

