[glckr]

> If your code can execute 10x faster without jQuery then the optimization is not premature.

One could argue that it is premature if the code doesn't _need_ to run 10x faster.

[austincheney]

One could also argue that driving to work is premature if you have two perfectly good legs. All ridiculousness aside a person can invent any absurd excuse to hide from the common practices of their profession.