[jQuery] jquery superfish performance question

[grabnerandi]

I am analyzing some performance issues at a website and ran into a
piece of code in superfish where i was wondering if this could be
optimized.
in the superfish method i can see the following code snippet:

var $a = $('a',this);
$a.each(function(i){
  var $li = $a.eq(i).parents('li');
  $a.eq(i).focus(function(){over.call($li);}).blur(function(){out.call
($li);});
});

I used the dynaTrace AJAX Edition to analyze the performance of the
superfish method. It turns out the the .eq(i) on $a takes about 20% of
the total execution time. As we are in the each method - wouldnt it be
better to just use this instead of accessing the current object in the
each loop via the eq method? Couldn't the above code be changed to

var $a = $('a',this);
$a.each(function(i){
  var $li = this.parents('li');
  this.focus(function(){over.call($li);}).blur(function(){out.call
($li);});
});

Thoughts?