jQuery delegate performance on the click event on large lists - slows down if you dynamically add more elements?

Question

I have a visual list of items like this:

http://jsfiddle.net/viatropos/XCe3T/1/

In the real app, I\'m only loading 200 total items. But the problem is the

Answer 1

Based on my experience it is better (performance wise) to reinitialize (unbind and then bind event handlers again) than to use .live or .delegate. That way you should achieve the performance you need. Practically I would define a threshhold where delegate becomes slow, remove all the bindings and rebind the eventHandlers to the existing set of elements.