How does jQuery store xml used as a context parameter as it modifies it?
<p>I'm trying to reduce DOM manipulation during my javascript execution, and I thought about lazy-writing DOM elements, versus writing a large section of the DOM hidden and unhiding the needed parts later.</p>

<p>To do this, I've separated out all my DOM content into a JSP which I load into a variable via ajax and manipulate with jQuery. However, if jQuery is doing this manipulation in a hidden div on the DOM, I've achieved no performance gain. Help?</p>
