What side effects does the keyword 'new' have in JavaScript?

Question

I\'m working on a plug-in for jQuery and I\'m getting this JSLint error:

Problem at line 80 character 45: Do not use \'new\' for side effects.

(new jQuery.faste         


        

Answer 1

Basically JavaScript tends to be a slow beast, so creating a new object just to call a function is quite inefficient. The function is static anyway.

$.fasterTrim(this, options);