title: does manual garbage collection of DOM elements in jquery improve browser performance at all?
body: <p>with scope on performance, does it make any sense to remove elements that are not longer needed? or do browsers perform auto garbage collection on dom elements, that are not further referenced in code?</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('some_element').fadeOut(1000, function(el){
     $(el).remove(); // &lt;-- does this make sense at all?
  });
  </code></pre>