Timeline for Difference between .on('click') vs .click()

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Jul 20, 2016 at 20:53	history	edited	gilly3	CC BY-SA 3.0	Attempting to address downvotes by clarifying what I meant by "No".
Mar 24, 2016 at 18:07	comment	added	gilly3		@rubo77 - The performance gain is only seen when using event delegation by passing a `selector` parameter. If you call `.on()` without a `selector` parameter there is no performance improvement over using `.click()`.
Mar 24, 2016 at 18:03	history	edited	gilly3	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 371 characters in body
Mar 24, 2016 at 13:00	comment	added	gilly3		And how is event delegation accomplished in jQuery? With `.on()`.
Mar 24, 2016 at 10:03	comment	added	Rory McCrossan		The bigger issue is why you have 3000 questions on a page. If you follow good UI patterns you should never have that much information on a page. Look into paging, or lazy loading. Even using event delegation to have a single event handler for all those elements would be better.
Mar 24, 2016 at 9:39	comment	added	Randy		@RoryMcCrossan that's a big deal for me though - I am looking for this because i have up to 3000 questions on a page that need events. One milisec each makes my page take 3 seconds longer to perform. Your comment isn't helpful for big lists.
Mar 23, 2016 at 9:12	comment	added	Rory McCrossan		@rubo77 negligible at best. We're taking single-figure milliseconds.
Oct 14, 2015 at 7:11	comment	added	rubo77		what about the performance issue pointed out my @andreister ?
Feb 3, 2012 at 0:31	history	answered	gilly3	CC BY-SA 3.0