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by pkorzeniewski 4320 days ago
In 99% cases the performance difference doesn't matter - users won't notice that a jQuery method runs 5ms slower than it would run in vanilla JS, but they will notice if the script doesn't work at all, because your vanilla JS code fails on older browsers.
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I agree for the most part - I'm just making a theoretical distinction.