title: Chrome event triggering takes ages in large DOM
body: <p>I have a relatively large DOM and have noticed an incredible performance degradation in chrome when triggering events on an element.  A single event e.g:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myElem.trigger('myevent.myscope',arguments);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>takes 14ms!! (22.0.1229.92 m)</p>
  
  <p>the same event in firefox 15.0.1 and msie 9 take less than 1ms to trigger!</p>
  
  <p>The element is a jquery object and has been cached so there is no DOM lookup taking place prior to the trigger.  I am using console.time() </p>
  
  <pre><code>console.time('trigger');
  myElem.trigger('myevent.myscope',arguments);
  console.timeEnd('trigger');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone shed a bit of light on this situation</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>Gary</p>