Nice catch, that makes sense. Added it to the test page, it has no
significant impact on performance.

cheers,
- ricardo

On Feb 27, 7:27 pm, Robert Katić <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since .get(-1) will be supported, eq(-1) would be supported too (?).
>
> So your implementation needs some extra code:
>
> eq: function( i ) {
>     if ( i < 0 )
>         i += this.length;
>     return this.pushStack( this[i], 'eq', i )
>
> }
>
> However this solution would be still faster then the one 
> onhttp://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4188, I suppose.
>
> On Feb 26, 11:02 pm, ricardobeat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Right, thanks!
>
> > Using pushStack seems ok, it's still chainable and keeps the selector
> > state, while still being at least twice faster.
>
> >http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4262http://jquery.nodnod.net/cases/177/run
>
> > cheers,
> > - ricardo
>
> > On Feb 26, 11:28 am, John Resig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Well, first I would argue that the two are not equivalent.
>
> > > $($(...)[x]) doesn't maintain the stack. You can no longer do:
> > > $(...).eq(1).addClass("test").end().appendTo("#foo");
> > > $($(...)[x]) doesn't maintain the internal selector state for plugins.
> > > For example if you checked $(...).eq(1).selector you'd see: ".slice(1,
> > > 2)"
>
> > > So, with that in mind, if there were ways to maintain that
> > > functionality and still get a performance speed-up, I'd definitely be
> > > open to it.
>
> > > --John
>
> > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ricardo Tomasi <[email protected]> 
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Creating two jQuery objects + a lookup $( $(...)[x] ) is faster than a
> > > > simple $(...).eq(x). That doesn't make much sense.
>
> > > > Currently the eq function looks like this:
> > > > eq: function( i ) {
> > > >        return this.slice( i, +i + 1 );
> > > > },
>
> > > > Are there any downsides to changing it to this (object unique IDs,
> > > > chaining)?
>
> > > > eq: function( i ) {
> > > >        return jQuery(this[i]);
> > > > },
>
> > > > That offers a 25% to 40% speed improvement across all browsers.
> > > >http://jquery.nodnod.net/cases/177
>
> > > > cheers,
> > > > - ricardo
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